May 29, 1453, marks a dark chapter in the history of our people and the world, the dramatic fall of the Queen of Cities, ...

In 1453, the Ottomans seized Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire and the life of its last emperor, Constantine ...

Constantinople fell, and Emperor Constantine XI’s sacrifice marked the end of an era and a legacy of faith and defiance.

The Komnenos Dynasty came from obscure origins to revive the Byzantine Empire after a disastrous period of weak emperors and ...

Constantinople, the magnificent capital of the Byzantine Empire, fell to the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmed II ...

On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a t ...

Ioannis Kolettis, later Greek Prime Minister, formalised this longing in his political program—the Μεγάλη Ιδέα—a revivalist ...

New book chronicles the impact Turkish coffee has exercised on the way of life in both Europe and the Middle East. SHARJAH, ...

At his installation Mass, the pope said, "in this our time, we still see too much discord, too many wounds caused by hatred, ...

The Patriarchate of Constantinople is a critical player in ... they have garnered sympathy and support among people who were once indifferent or even hostile to them. Influential conservative ...

After conquering Constantinople, the young sultan — he ... function as a place of worship symbolically, and where limited people are allowed in at once,” he says. The prayers Kaya mentions ...