This classic account shows how the fall of Constantinople in May 1453, after a siege of several weeks, came as a bitter shock to Western Christendom. The city's plight had been neglected, and ...

1453 – when the City was overwhelmed by invaders. But it would be inaccurate for us to conceive of the “Fall of Constantinople” as the end or termination of our Orthodox Christian Civilization, even ...

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 ...

From its foundation in the fourth century, to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth, 'Constantinople' not only identified a geographical location, but also summoned an idea. On the one hand, ...

Eventually, the seat of the church would relocate to Moscow while Constantinople would fall to the Ottomans in 1453, giving rise to the aura of Moscow as the “Third Rome.” Although some ...

This is particularly the case since the film glorifies the image of a strong and powerful Turkey through a key historical event: the conquest of Constantinople by Sultan Mohamed II in 1453 AD.

Patriarch Kirill (l) recently met the Patriarch of Constantinople ... were set up during Ukraine's brief independence after the fall of the Russian empire and again after communism collapsed ...