Five different sets of walls have been built around the city of Constantinople, the most important of which was the last, built under the reign of Theodosius II, who came to power in 408 AD. Also ...

“To the City” interweaves its portrayal of contemporary Turkey with a retelling of the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in ...

As an economic foundation, trade played an important role in the empire. The city of Constantinople became rich and powerful because of its strategic location. Due to its walls and water protection, ...

By 1370 it was no more than a minor state that extended barely beyond the walls of Constantinople - modern Istanbul. All its provinces had been lost, most of them conquered by the Muslim Ottoman ...

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

Dobrochna Zielińska, examined how Christianity, a new faith that came to Nubia from Constantinople in the ... on the murals that once adorned the walls of the cathedral in Faras.

I look up into the dome and the walls of this magnificent cathedral ... Indeed, although the title for this evening is a “Musical Tribute to the Fall of Constantinople,” and we have heard truly ...

The primary water reservoir for Constantinople, the Basilica Cistern ... Now a museum, the venue is full of treasures, from walls festooned with gorgeous paintings to rooms that give way to ...

An Endemousa (Regional) Synod was called in Constantinople in 843 ... and of all the saints, depicted on walls, panels and sacred vessels, setting aside the unbelievers' ungodly teaching. For the ...

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