which deprived Constantinople of most of the territories that were previously under the rule of the Eastern Roman Empire,” the researchers said. With the trade routes having collapsed ...

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 ...

It dates to the 15th-century fall of the great empire and offers a vision of the man painted according to his likeness.

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.

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 ...

The history and characteristics of the unique surviving portrait of the last byzantine emperor, Constantine Palaiologos, ...

But tensions within the Church mounted after Ukraine became independent in 1991, with the collapse of the Soviet ... the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople overruled its decision dating ...

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, ...