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- historian Doukas, on the morning of 29 May 1453, the small postern called Kerkoporta was left open by accident, allowing the first fifty or so Ottoman troops...
- deserting his post after the Ottoman banner was raised on the tower above the Kerkoporta,[citation needed] but this may have been politically motivated slander...
- walls. About fifty Ottoman soldiers made it through one of the gates, the Kerkoporta, and were the first of the enemy to enter Constantinople; it had been...
- Giustiniani himself, fled the battle. Some historians suggest that the Kerkoporta gate in the Blachernae section had been left unlocked, and the Ottomans...
- small secret underground gate on the northern section of the walls called Kerkoporta through which the Ottomans, who also breached the Charisian Gate further...