Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, is a Greek name, too, deriving from the Greek phrase "Is tin poli," meaning "to the city." ...

Constantinople fell, and Emperor Constantine XI’s sacrifice marked the end of an era and a legacy of faith and defiance.

In a superb octavo volume, replete with valuable maps, plans, and illustrations, and bearing the title "Byzantine ... Constantinople. Numerous excellent plans and illustrations of the ruins of ...

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Paul Magdalino, Roman Constantinople in Byzantine Perspective. The Memorial and Aesthetic Rediscovery of Constantine’s Beautiful City, from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance (Brill Research ...

Both the Chora Church and Hagia Sophia are 4th-century Byzantine constructions ... to mosques by the Ottomans after their conquest of Constantinople in the 15th century. Despite their conversions ...

Archaeologists have excavated subterranean rooms and a tunnel under an early church in Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. When you purchase through links on ...

A metal detectorist discovered in the county of Innlandet, in inland Norway, a rare histamenon nomisma (literally standard coin), a Byzantine solid gold coin, minted in Constantinople ... the coin on ...