The Fourth Crusade left three terrible legacies: a deepening religious split between the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic ...

That is no country for old men,’ wrote Yeats, turning his gaze toward Byzantium as a symbol of civilisational order, ...

Since the release of the U.S. 28-point draft peace plan in late November, many officials and observers have suggested that a ...

After the Ottoman's defeat the Serbian Lazar at the 1389 Battle of Kosovo, their new Sultan Bayezid I continued their ...

Paradox Tinto has remained busy after the release of Europa Universalis V last month, pushing out a clutch of patches and with a testing regime for ...

Spanning roughly one hundred years, the collection of over 6,000 photographic images forms a visual record of the late years of the Ottoman Empire and the formation and early years of the Republic of ...

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Constantinople stood against sieges and attacks for many centuries, until finally new technology—the big cannons of the Ottoman Empire—brought down the Byzantine Empire’s capital. The fall of ...

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 ...

Istanbul (CNN) — Whether you’re a believer or not, visiting Hagia Sophia is a spiritual experience. The architectural genius of this place of worship — which was built as a church in 537CE before its ...