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 ...

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

The cataclysmic fall of Constantinople, and its eventual renaming as Istanbul, signaled the rise of the Ottoman Empire not only as a power in the Middle East, but also its expansion as a European one.

Saturday, May 29, is the anniversary of the fall of Constantinople in 1453 A.D., the end of the Byzantine Roman Empire. The Byzantines were the medieval heirs to the much older Roman Empire ...

Today marks the 560th anniversary of the fall and capture of the magnificent Christian city of Constantinople, the eastern capital of the Roman Empire, to the forces led by the Ottoman Turkish Sultan, ...

The combined effect of these adverse developments led to the fall of Constantinople. Do you know who ratified the fall of Constantinople with his signature? No one. Since then, more than 500 years ...

John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, followed by the rise of the Ottoman Turks in the 15th Century. Using monuments in Istanbul to ...

The row between Moscow and Constantinople (as the seat of the Ecumenical Patriarch is still styled) was sparked by the conflict in Ukraine but is also rooted in two much older disputes—one about where ...

Renaissance scholarship proved fatal for one of the medieval papacy’s favorite claims. What does the fall of Constantinople in 1453 have to do with the exposure of a famous forgery? For a half ...