This is the twentieth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe, Turkey, and the Near East to Georgia and ...

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

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

The Komnenos Dynasty came from obscure origins to revive the Byzantine Empire after a disastrous period of weak emperors and ...

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

The Byzantine Empire lasted until 1453, when Constantinople (present-day Istanbul ... He visits Konya, their capital and, by the early 1200s, one of the great cities of the Islamic-Mediterranean ...

Constantinople, the heart and last consequential redoubt of the Byzantine Empire, was conquered and sacked in 1453 by the Ottomans. And in 1521, the Spanish conquistadors and their Mesoamerican allies ...

“Who now knows which peoples in the Roman Empire were what, since we have all become Romans?” Two centuries after that, Emperor Heraclius considered moving the capital from Constantinople to ...

When the Ottomans, led by Sultan Mehmed II, captured Constantinople on May 29, 1453, bringing an end to the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantine Empire ... proclaimed himself emperor and established his ...

It was likely created in Constantinople (now Istanbul), the capital of the Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire. On one face of the coin is a depiction of Jesus, holding a Bible.

It is a unique find in the Norwegian context. The coin was minted in the Byzantine Empire, probably in the capital, Constantinople, and on one side, it depicts Christ holding the Bible, and on the ...

While political and religious divisions are common today, the problem is not new. Christians have struggled to get along with each other for a long time. The story of how Jesus’ disciples and apostles ...