ABSTRACT
After the fall of Acre in 1291, the Mamluks had now firmly set the stage for the counter-crusades that they were soon to undertake with great precision and with much strategic forethought. Still more painfully, Constantinople, the city of Emperor Constantine the Great and the pride of the Byzantine Empire, was to fall to the Turkish forces of Sultan Mehmed II in 1453 and become the shining star of the Ottoman Empire. The rise of the Ottoman power in the 15th century opened a new chapter in the already strained Armeno-Turkic relations. The chapter discusses the intrinsic reasons for the demise of the Cilician kingdom whilst being aware that it is not altogether wrong to suggest that there was no overwhelming single reason. The outcome of the impact of the Turkic hordes on the Armenians in Anatolia was the fall of the long-established Armenian monarchy in the region of Cilicia.
