Built as Byzantium, and then renamed Constantinople, Istanbul officially received its present name on this day in 1930.

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Crusius plundered contemporary travel accounts for information alongside chronicles and histories. He recognised ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Orthodox Church on Saturday held an enthronement ceremony for its new Archbishop Joan, who ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Orthodox Church on Saturday held an enthronement ceremony for its new Archbishop Joan, who ...

What comes to mind when you think about the kind of Roman Emperor who managed to establish an indestructible empire?

In the brilliant long-form podcast Fall of Civilizations, author Paul Cooper gives listeners a sense of how average citizens living in ...

The Orthodox Church of Albania was declared autocephalous in September in 1922, ending its subordination to the archbishopric of Ohrid and the patriarchate of Constantinople. Archbishop Joan ...

“Orthodox change nothing,” Father Sava adds. “The faith that was delivered to the saints,” Martin agrees. We pause before a ...

Sir Steven Runciman’s lapidary account of the siege and fall of Constantinople in 1453, now forty years old, was a lamentation for the civilisation and the people he loved: ‘In this story,’ he wrote, ...

From Mali's Great Mosque of Djenné to Malaysia's Crystal Mosque, these are the most beautiful mosques in the world that you ...