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 ...

A VISIT TO THE DEPOSED SULTAN--A COMPLAINT OF IGNOBLE TREATMENT--FULL TEXT OF THE LETTER FROM CONSTANTINOPLE REFERRED TO IN THE CABLE DISPATCHES OF YESTERDAY. July 7, 1877 The New York Times Archives ...

Though Edward’s adventures are long forgotten, the visit’s true lasting legacy is a rare collection of more than 180 pictures, which captured an area rarely previously photographed.