This episode begins season two of the animated documentary series on the rise of the Ottoman Empire. After conquering Constantinople in 1453, the Ottomans began reshaping the city into their imperial ...

John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, followed by the rise of the Ottoman Turks in the 15th Century. Using monuments in Istanbul to ...

The fall of Constantinople on May 29, 1453, marked the end of Byzantine rule and the beginning of a new era under Ottoman ...