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

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

The true story of Byzantium's fall reveals a legacy betrayed by the West, misunderstood by the Left, and weaponised by the ...

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 ...

This animated documentary series traces the dramatic rise of the Ottoman Empire, from its origins as a small Turkic beylik to its conquest of Constantinople in 1453. Covering major battles like ...

County pulls $1.5M in pandemic funds after state scraps new mental hospital plans Oklahoma County commissioners want their money back. After allocating $1.5 million in federal pandemic relief to help ...

Jean-Arnault Dérens, historian and editor-in-chief of Le Courrier des Balkans, has just published Geopolitics of Orthodoxy: ...

Ioannis Kolettis, later Greek Prime Minister, formalised this longing in his political program—the Μεγάλη Ιδέα—a revivalist ...

May 29 has witnessed some of the most pivotal moments in global history, affecting politics, culture, and society in profound ...

Eli Cohen, a Mossad spy caught operating under cover among the highest echelons in Syria, was hanged in Damascus. The ...

This is the eightheenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time ...