When Polo encountered the Mongol Empire in 1275, its ruler, Kublai Khan, governed modern-day China (where the empire was ...

Constantinople – officially renamed Istanbul in the 1920s – has an extraordinary past, and an exhilarating present and future as modern Turkey wrestles with the present-day challenges and what the ...

Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped ...

Exiled to Constantinople by her brother ... Aetius and his allies obliged Attila to lift his siege of Aurelianum (modern-day Orleans) and withdraw. After a week on the defensive, Attila decided ...

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

Justinian's triumphal column was the tallest free-standing column of the pre-modern world and was crowned with arguably ... The Byzantine empire's bronze horseman towered over the heart of ...

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 ...

This land-based strategy of Allied ships hoped to knock Ottoman Turkey out of the war and allow ships to pass through the Dardanelles and capture Constantinople (modern day Istanbul). The exhibit ...

In the 11th Century, Christianity was divided into two primary power hubs: Constantinople in the ... in the 1st Century C.E. in what is now modern-day Israel and Palestine. Following Jesus ...

Whether you want to take a dip in the Black Sea or dig into a delicious oceanfront meal, some of them make easy day trips from ... onward journey to Byzantium/Constantinople.

but also with the Byzantine Empire (centred on Constantinople - modern-day Istanbul) and Egypt. They revolutionised historians' understanding of the 7th Century, previously seen as a backward time ...

Steeped in more than a thousand years of history, the neighborhood is the beating heart of modern Istanbul on ... Istanbul was the imperial capital of Constantinople, it was known for its horse ...