When he left the Cathedral [da Santa Sabedoria] the Sultan rode across the square to the old Sacred Palace. As he moved through its half-ruined halls and galleries it was said that he murmured the words of a Persian poet: 'The spider weaves its curtains in the palace of the Caesars; the owl calls the watches in Afrasiab's towers.'
Steven Runciman. The Fall of Constantinople. CUP (1965).
A 29 de Maio de 1453 a cidade de Byzâncio foi tomada no cerco de Mahmet II.
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