Constantine XI Palaiologos was the Last Christian Emperor of Constantinople and Byzantium.
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In the years that followed it was said that he was not dead but sleeping - the \'Immortal emperor\' turned to marble, who would one day be awakened by an angel and drive the Turks out of his city and empire.
In 1453, when Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks, he was Last seen fighting at the city walls, but the actual circumstances of his death have remained surrounded in myth.
Constantine XI Palaiologos was the Last Christian Emperor of Constantinople and Byzantium