Historians have chosen the year of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans, 1453, as a reference point to mark the end of ...

Vlad III, the second of four brothers, was likely born in 1431 in Transylvania, a craggy, verdant part of present-day Romania (it ... around and marched back to Constantinople.

One of the council's lasting legacies is the Nicene Creed, a profession of faith still recited by Christians of all big ...