In 1453, the Ottomans seized Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire and the life of its last emperor, Constantine ...

Sir Steven Runciman’s lapidary account of the siege and fall of Constantinople in 1453, now forty years old, was a lamentation for the civilisation and the people he loved: ‘In this story,’ he wrote, ...

The article discusses the historical and contemporary significance of the 'Confluence of Two Seas,' from Dara Shukoh's ...

The Siege of Constantinople, subtitled "The End of the Middles Ages 1453 A.D.", is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1978 that simulates the land combat during the ...

With its strategic location on the Bosphorus peninsula between the Balkans and Bosphorus and the Mediterranean, Istanbul has been associated with major political, religious and artistic events for ...

John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, followed by the rise of the Ottoman Turks in the 15th Century. Using monuments in Istanbul to ...

One of them, Hagia Sophia, was once the grandest cathedral in the Christian world until the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans on May 29, 1453, followed by a three days of unbridled pillage. Hagia ...

The Renaissance began in Italy during the 14th century, spreading across Europe by the 17th century. This period saw a ...

The icon epitomizes decades of Russian thought about a world without Byzantium. The icon advances a claim for perpetual holiness that was first made manifest in Constantinople, was transmitted to the ...

When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

Then Islam surfaced, almost invisibly at first, to consolidate the greatest peril to Europe – and the entire West – since the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453. The emergence of ...