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 ...

This was the custom in Constantinople until its fall in 1453 and in Russia until the reign of Peter I. September 1 is still festively celebrated as the New Year at the Patriarchate of Constantinople; ...

In a note at the end, the author admits he is “labouring in [the] shadow” of classics such as Steven Runciman’s “The Fall of ...

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.

We will begin in 476 with the fall of Rome and will end in 1453, with the fall of New Rome (Constantinople). In between, we will trace the different trajectories that the area stretching from Iceland ...

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.

At the same time, western Roman cities began to crumble while Constantinople remained stable. As the Eastern Roman Empire emerged after the fall of the West ... from 284 to 1453 (the first division of ...