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.

Many factors contributed to the survival of the Byzantine Empire. It had a good infrastructure system that funneled agricultural supplies, and it had a good infrastructure system that funneled these ...

The rooms appear to be around 1,500 years old when the city was the capital of the Byzantine Empire and known as Constantinople. The rooms were located beneath the Church of St. Polyeuctus ...

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 ...

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A portrait of the final Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Palailogos, has been discovered by archaeologists in Greece. The portrait was found on a mid-15th century fresco uncovered at a monastery ...

Constantine XI heroically perished during the final siege of Constantinople on May 29, 1453, an event that marked the end of the Byzantine Empire and the beginning of a new era in the region. Far from ...

For the Byzantine Empire around 1400 ... 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 ...