Altogether Mansel has published eleven books of history and biography, mainly relating either to France or the Ottoman Empire and West Asia: “Sultans in Splendour” was published in 1988, ...

Successive attacks from the Latins, Serbs, Bulgarians and Ottoman Turks, as well as mass fatalities from the Black Death, had weakened the Byzantine Empire and the population within Constantinople ...

Explore the intriguing relationship between a hadeeth, the conquest of Constantinople, and Muhammad AlFaatih in our detailed analysis. We delve into the authenticity of the hadith stating, You will ...

It's Istanbul, not Constantinople, that straddles the Bosporus Strait today. But more than half a millennium ago—on May 29, 1453—it was Constantinople, then the last bastion of the Roman ...

German Vizulis/Shutterstock (made using Canva) On August 27 1761, a Danish explorer started a small riot in the grand bazaar of Constantinople (present-day Istanbul).

Because of its cultural and religious diversity, early modern Constantinople was widely perceived as a dangerous place. As a result, there was a heightened sensitivity to the transgression of ...

1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West Roger Crowley, . . Hyperion, $25.95 (304pp) ISBN 978-1-4013-0191-0 ...