severely weakened Constantinople’s economic and military strength. These conquests contributed directly to the empire’s inability to recover, leading to its eventual collapse. What caused the ...

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 decline culminated in the Ottoman Turks' conquering of Constantinople in 1453 AD ... "Why do empires fall? This is one of the questions that fascinate many, both in academia and among ...

Hagia Sophia remains the symbolic center of Greek Orthodoxy even centuries after its fall to the Ottomans and conversion to a ...

The story of Constantinople is a fascinating one that dates back millennia to when this mega-city was a small Greek town known as Byzantium.

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, ...

It follows signs that Constantinople's Patriarch Bartholomew ... were set up during Ukraine's brief independence after the fall of the Russian empire and again after communism collapsed in 1991.

The break came after the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople recognised the independence of the Ukrainian Church from Moscow. The row is being described as the greatest Orthodox split since ...