This is the eightheenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time ...

The Ionian Islands were then occupied by the French for eight years, during which Liston was built in an exact copy of Rivoli ...

As the parodies of peace negotiations between Russia, Ukraine and America continue—most recently marked by the failed attempt to bring Putin and Zelenskyy together in Istanbul—Pope Leo XIV ...

The greatest early modern authority on Ottoman Greece was Martin Cruisius – a man who had never left Germany.

WashU announced plans to rename the Robert J. Terry endowed Professorship in the School of Medicine and the annual Robert J. Terry Lecture Series in the Neuroscience Department, following a ...

This episode begins season two of the animated documentary series on the rise of the Ottoman Empire. After conquering ...

As the Ottomans continued their rise after the Fall of Constantinople, a brutal resistance emerged in Wallachia. This Kings ...

Like the Anglo-Saxons consider Friday the 13th a bad luck day, Greeks have branded Tuesday the 13th as a day you'd rather ...

Roman Emperor Constantine the Great officially declared Constantinople his “New Rome” and the capital of the Roman Empire on ...

So, I fire up trailer two for the seven thousandth time this week, because what if - I ask myself, in a voice that’s still ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth century, and with a history surrounded in myth, legend and controversy, it ...