The Theodosian Walls protected Constantinople for just over ten centuries until the city fell to the Ottomans in 1453. Yet, the wall survived both the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, with sections of ...
Kings and Generals is remaking its animated historical documentary on the history of the Ottoman Empire, beginning with Season 1: The Rise of the Ottoman Empire. This season follows the Ottomans from ...
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 ...