Digenes Akritas is an epic poem from the Byzantine Empire. It follows the exploits of the titular hero in the Byzantine ...

John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, followed by the rise of the Ottoman Turks in the 15th Century. Using monuments in Istanbul to ...

while Constantinople - modern-day Istanbul - was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as the Byzantine Empire. Rome - and the Western Roman Empire - fell in 476 AD. The 'eternal ...