Greek Reporter1d
On This Day in 1930, Constantinople Was Renamed Istanbul, Both Greek Words
Built as Byzantium, and then renamed Constantinople, Istanbul officially received its present name on this day in 1930.
BBC6y
Chronicle - The Fall of Constantinople
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 ...