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 ...

The period from the Mamlūk reconquest of Acre (1291) to the Ottoman siege of Constantinople (1453) witnessed the production of a substantial corpus of Middle English crusade romances. Marcel Elias ...

and soon plots to conquer Constantinople with a massive army and powerful new weapons in this spectacular historical epic set in the year A.D. 1453.

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 ...

Saint Paul was from Thessalonica. He became the secretary of Alexander, Patriarch of Constantinople (see Aug. 30), a deacon, and then the successor of Saint Alexander in about 337. Because of his ...

The Ottoman-Byzantine War series of conflicts from- - 1299 to 1453, led to the fall of Constantinople- - the ... the Battle of Covadonga (722) and the Siege of Granada (1492), marking the end ...

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.

For museums and their public, Impressionism is the Goldilocks movement: not too old or too new, not too challenging or too ...

built in 1452 during the final siege of Constantinople. From its ramparts and walls, you catch some of Istanbul's best views of the Bosphorus, and down below are fantastic outdoor eateries ...