Few of the world’s great cities share a pedigree and history as rich as Constantinople. Originally founded, according Greek mythology, by Byzas – son of the god Poseidon, the town once known as ...

A city larger than many in Europe at the time was perched in the mountains.

The Byzantine empire's bronze horseman towered over the heart of Constantinople, assumed new identities, spawned conflicting narratives, and acquired widespread international acclaim. Because all ...

The break came after the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople recognised the independence of the Ukrainian Church from Moscow. The row is being described as the greatest Orthodox split since ...

Mickiewicz who had become for Poles the poet-prophet, during his lifetime was also a professor, politician, and journalist, before eventually dropping poetry altogether. He wrote and wandered through ...

During the next century, Christians perished in China completely. With the fall of the Tang Dynasty in 907, China once again ...

Mathewes-Green: Let’s look at a map. Open your left hand, palm toward you, and assign the thumb to Rome, and the fingers to Constantinople ... was hitchhiking around Europe (at that time ...

This thrilling, wide-ranging exhibition maps the complex connections among European and Asian civilizations from A.D. 500 to ...

Istanbul is the only city in the world that's spread over two continents, with the Bosphorus strait forming the dividing line between Europe and ... was once the city of Constantinople, the ...

He was the son of pious parents, Sergius and Irene, who suffered for the Faith under the Iconoclast Emperor Theophilus; he was also a nephew of Saint Tarasius, Patriarch of Constantinople (see Feb. 25 ...

Benjamin spent long periods in Christian strongholds like Rome and Constantinople ... life and the relations between ...

They deployed drone-based lidar remote scanning to map the scale and layout of the ... an to destinations including the Byzantine capital Constantinople and the sophisticated Islamic metropolis ...