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

Albania’s Orthodox Church on Saturday held an enthronement ceremony for its new Archbishop Joan, who succeeded Archbishop ...

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

"It is always difficult to establish if the eclipses were seen in the ancient past as bad omens or good omens." ...

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

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

Some of the oldest ancient temples continue to fulfil their original purpose after thousands of years, continuing their ...

Each year on March 25, Greeks worldwide celebrate Greek Independence Day, marking the 204th anniversary of the 1821 uprising ...

The struggle of the enslaved Greeks against their ruthless rulers, the Ottoman Turks, officially started on the 25th of March 1821 ...

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The Siege of 1453 The Siege of 1453 was a defining moment for Constantinople and the world. The city, once considered impregnable, faced the formidable forces of the Ottoman Empire led by Sultan ...

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 histories greatest ...