This episode begins season two of the animated documentary series on the rise of the Ottoman Empire. After conquering ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

The Greek genocide and the Pontic genocide instigated by the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish national movement is a dark ...

Bulgarians and Ottoman Turks, as well as mass fatalities from the Black Death, had weakened the Byzantine Empire and the population within Constantinople itself dropped from 400,000 in the 12th ...

After the Roman Empire fell, Constantinople continued to be the capital of the ... Capital of both the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, it was a great city in both periods.

It was February 17, 1985, in Van Nuys, California. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath to be present in the living room ...

In addition to being a symbol of the rise of Islam and the decline of Christianity, Constantinople was one of the most crucial cities in the expansion of the Ottoman Empire. It was the center of the ...

the origins and rise of the Ottoman Empire; the conquest of Constantinople and its significance for world history; Ottoman state institutions in the “classic age;” gendering Ottoman History; the ...

A pair of 1,500-year-old lady's sandals with a message in Greek was discovered during a dig in Constantinople, today's ...

The Triumph of Orthodoxy did not secure the survival of the Byzantine Empire. In 1453 the city fell to the Turks, Constantinople became the capital of the Ottoman Empire, and the great cathedral ...

captured Constantinople, his victory paved the way for the Ottoman Empire, which would last until 1922. To suggest to the world not only Islam’s superiority but also that the Ottomans were the ...