Documentary taking a look at the Fourth Crusade, one of the most widely-discussed episodes in Crusades history. In 1204, an ...

The fall of Constantinople, on May 29,1453 was the final phase of the Byzantine-Ottoman Wars and the darkest page in Greek ...

with Constantinople the capital of the eastern half. 476 The Western Roman Empire collapses and its last emperor is deposed." 527 Justinian becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire. 532 The Nika ...

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

Constantinople, the magnificent capital of the Byzantine Empire, fell to the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmed II ...

On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a t ...

Centered in modern-day Istanbul from A.D. 330 to 1453, its capital of Constantinople was a thriving ... His premise is that when Rome fell, the Byzantine Empire went on to preserve a white ...

For 400 years, the Byzantine Empire, most commonly known as the Eastern Roman Empire or simply Byzantium, occupied the East. Constantine I founded it in Constantinople, and it became its capital after ...

Byzantine civilization, the eastern Roman empire whose capital was at Constantinople, is mostly known today for its spirituality and eccentricities, including the spectacular church of Hagia Sophia (a ...