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Constantinople: falls 1040 years after it rises.

FIRST ARAB DEFEATS: ca. 1000 Higri

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Narrator:

Constantinople, whose dominance was secured by Rome’s demise, suffered its own ruin 1040 years later.

Soon afterwards, Istanbul’s Arab conquerors suffered their first historic defeats at the hands of non-Muslims—

just after the millenium of their era.