On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a t ...

He’s the guy who rode into town in 1453 and established Ottoman rule in Constantinople ... of the Bosphorus strait, where Persian King Darius I was said to have built a floating bridge in ...

Every day, for three weeks and more, the crowded transports steamed down the Bosphorus ... and for them Constantinople can have been simply a fugitive panorama of cypresses and minarets and ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday inaugurated the third bridge over the Bosphorus Strait between Europe and Asia ... who seized the city of Constantinople from the Byzantines and famously ...

Before Mehmet the Conqueror seized Constantinople in 1452 ... Mosque stands 10 minutes further south, close to the Bosphorus Bridge, on a platform built out into the water. It's a stunning ...

Footage captures Turkish soldiers surrendering on a bridge over the Bosphorus, in Istanbul. There is no sound on this video. Soldiers surrender on Bosphorus bridge. Video, 00:00:38Soldiers ...

The Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge stretches across the Bosphorus Strait, which flows between the two continents. The $3 billion bridge is part of $200 billion worth of construction initiatives pushed ...