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 ...

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 ...

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

They deployed drone-based lidar remote scanning to map the scale and layout of the sites ... Chinese cities such as Xi'an to ...

Adam Mickiewicz, national Polish poet of the 19th century, is also the quintessential migrating poet. Mickiewicz who had become for Poles the poet-prophet, during his lifetime was also a professor, ...

Saint Alexander was sent to the First Ecumenical Council in Nicaea as the delegate of Saint Metrophanes, Bishop of Constantinople (see June 4), to whose throne he succeeded in the year 325. When Arius ...

This area holds a significant place in history, as it was once the city of Constantinople, the center of the Roman Empire. Multiple neighborhoods can be found within Fatih, including Sultanahmet ...

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 ...

Britons are creatures of habit when it comes to travel, and the top 10 countries for trips abroad – according to the annual ...

One such woman was named Olympias in Constantinople. She was a very good friend and, in fact, the confidante of John Chrysostom, who became the Bishop of Constantinople the last few years of the ...

Google Maps and Waze have a lot of things in common, which makes sense considering Google is responsible for them both. But no matter how many updates happen, and how small the gap becomes ...