Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, is a Greek name, too, deriving from the Greek phrase "Is tin poli," meaning "to the city." ...

Constantinople fell, and Emperor Constantine XI’s sacrifice marked the end of an era and a legacy of faith and defiance.

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 t ...

Constantinople, the magnificent capital of the Byzantine Empire, fell to the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmed II ...

The Conqueror was not only a great military commander and statesman, but also a brilliant scientist who was a pioneer in ...

In Roman Constantinople, there was intense and often ... in several ways unlike any other building ever constructed in the ancient world. First of all, it enclosed an unprecedented amount of ...

Once known as Byzantium, it was named Constantinople in honor of Constantine, the Roman emperor who, around AD 330, as ancient Rome was falling, moved the capital to the less chaotic east.