On the Conquest of Constantinople is one of the most important historical sources on the Fourth Crusade and the Sack of ...

Dionysios Solomos was a Greek poet from Zante. He is best known for having written the Imnos eis tin Eleftherían ("Hymn to Freedom"), ...

Instead, Souness planting the flag drew comparisons with legendary Turkish martyr Ulubatlı Hasan, who was killed as he planted the Ottoman flag at the end of the Siege of Constantinople in 1453.

During the long nights of the second Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1683 ... rattled the minds of some of the greatest European political thinkers, from the fall of Constantinople in 1453 under the forces ...

while the Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453 took a mere seven and a half weeks. The struggle to capture Acre formed the opening military passage of the Third Crusade in Palestine. It involved ...

This is the story of Constantinople’s fall, how Europe’s richest city fell to the Turks and became known as Istanbul: the ...

Five thousand people have been killed or are missing due to Israel’s siege on northern Gaza, with its brutal attacks intensifying amid talks of a potential mediated agreement between Israel and ...

Trump’s proposal for the U.S. to take “ownership” over Gaza and displace Palestinians added to uncertainty over the fate of ...

A decision of the whole Orthodox Church could transfer the œcumenical function of the Archbishop of Constantinople to any other of the Patriarchates which, besides the ancient Patriarchates of ...

The Middle East is undergoing a profound transformation as new rivalries reshape its geopolitical order. For decades, the defining conflict in the region was a “cold war” between Iran and the ...

Democrats let Secretary of State Marco Rubio blitz to Senate confirmation Monday. Now it’s time for trench warfare. With Donald Trump’s nominees slowly emerging from Senate committees ...

On a cold Saturday morning in January 2022, Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, was a quiet sanctuary in a small community. As Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker prepared to lead a ...