After the Roman Empire fell, Constantinople continued to be the capital of the Byzantine Empire for a ... This is Turkey's largest city and most significant seaport. Capital of both the Byzantine and ...

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 ...

1915 with the arrest of several hundred Armenian intellectuals and representatives of national elite (mainly in the capital of the Ottoman Empire, Constantinople) and their subsequent elimination.

helping persuade Britain and France to attempt to knock the Ottoman Empire out of the war by forcing the Turkish straits and capturing Constantinople—setting the stage for Gallipoli. For their ...

The Triumph of Orthodoxy did not secure the survival of the Byzantine Empire. In 1453 the city fell to the Turks, Constantinople became the capital of the Ottoman Empire, and the great cathedral ...

“Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the North Carolina Museum ... The players are present-day Istanbul (formerly Constantinople), the ancient Greek port and imperial capital of two enormous ...

But in 1453, the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Mehmed II captured Constantinople, finishing off the Byzantine Empire once and for all. On entering the Hagia Sophia, Mehmed II insisted it be ...

In 1453, the Byzantine capital of Constantinople is surrounded by Ottoman Turks. The city is but a shadow of its former glory due to the empire's ever receding coffers, while the Ottoman Empire ...