Constantine XI Palaiologos was the “last Christian Emperor of Constantinople and Byzantium,” according to the late English Byzantinist, Donald MacGillivray Nicol, in his authoritative book ...

The final hours of Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last Byzantine Emperor and the powerful legend of the 'Marble Emperor.' ...

Istanbul has had many names, including Byzantium, New Rome and Constantinople. It didn't officially become Istanbul until 1930.

Conservation work by an archaeologist has revealed a previously unknown portrait of the last emperor of Byzantine, Constantine XI Palaiologos (Feb. 8 1404 – May 29 1453), dubbed the last ...