This is the story of Constantinople’s fall, how Europe’s richest city fell to the Turks and became known as Istanbul: the story of the Great Siege of 1453. When history's greatest fortification was ...

Every Muslim commander wanted to be the conqueror praised in the narration in which the Prophet said: "You will conquer Constantinople. Its commander is the best and its army (that will conquer it) is ...

On 6 April 1453, the Siege of Constantinople began under the command of Mehmed II, an Ottoman sultan who was just 21 years old but determined to see through his father’s dream of capturing the ...

Fatih the Ottoman conqueror who brought down the mighty Byzantine empire, was only 22 when he became master of Constantinople in 1453, thus fulfilling the ancient prophecy that 13 would lead to ...

This is how Philip Mansel described the conversion of the Haghia Sophia by Mehmed II, the conqueror of Constantinople. Hopes of re-enacting the scene have grown on news that Turkey’s pious prime ...

The Invention of Turkey on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. When Mehmet the Conqueror arrived in Constantinople in 1453, he renamed the city Istanbul and turned the main cathedral into a mosque.

Scientists investigated the longest aqueduct of the time, the 426-kilometer-long Aqueduct of Valens supplying Constantinople, and revealed new insights into how this structure was maintained back ...