Sojojin Ottoman da suka kai hari, wadanda suka zarce masu kare Konstantinoful, Sultan Mehmed II mai shekaru 21 (daga baya ake kiransa "Mai Nasara") ne ya ba da umarni, yayin da Sarkin Rumawa Constantine XI Palaiologos ya jagoranci sojojin Byzantine.Bayan ya ci birnin, Mehmed na biyu ya mai da Constantinople sabon babban birnin Ottoman, ya maye gurbin Adrianople.Faɗuwar Konstantinoful ta nuna ƙarshen daular Byzantine, kuma ta yadda za a kawo ƙarshen daular Roma, jihar da ta kasance a shekara ta 27 KZ kuma ta yi kusan shekaru 1,500.Kame Constantinople, birni ne da ke nuna rarrabuwar kawuna tsakanin Turai da Asiya Ƙarama, ya kuma baiwa Ottoman damar mamaye yankin Turai yadda ya kamata, wanda a ƙarshe ya kai ga ikon Ottoman na yankin Balkan.