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- 01Constantine XI reportedly tore off his purple imperial regalia before his final charge so he would not be captured and ransomed as an emperor.
- 02Sultan Mehmed II entered the Hagia Sophia the same day — the world's largest church for nearly a thousand years — and converted it to a mosque.
- 03The last recorded words attributed to Constantine XI were a request for anyone to come forward and kill him; no one knows who did.