After the Roman Empire fell, Constantinople continued to be the capital of the Byzantine Empire for a ... This is Turkey's largest city and most significant seaport. Capital of both the Byzantine and ...

The story of Constantinople is a fascinating one that dates back millennia to when this mega-city was a small Greek town ...

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 ...

1915 with the arrest of several hundred Armenian intellectuals and representatives of national elite (mainly in the capital of the Ottoman Empire, Constantinople) and their subsequent elimination.

Hagia Sophia remains the symbolic center of Greek Orthodoxy even centuries after its fall to the Ottomans and conversion to a ...

From its foundation in the fourth century, to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth, 'Constantinople' not only identified a geographical location, but also summoned an idea. On the one hand, ...

This decline culminated in the Ottoman Turks' conquering of Constantinople in 1453 AD. However, a new study suggests the empire actually flourished through a mini-ice age and the Justinianic Plague.

“Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the North Carolina Museum ... The players are present-day Istanbul (formerly Constantinople), the ancient Greek port and imperial capital of two enormous ...

But in 1453, the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Mehmed II captured Constantinople, finishing off the Byzantine Empire once and for all. On entering the Hagia Sophia, Mehmed II insisted it be ...