At the heart of Venice’s globally renowned St. Mark's Square sits Biblioteca Marciana, a library filled with the ghosts of a ...

Bulgarians and Ottoman Turks, as well as mass fatalities from the Black Death, had weakened the Byzantine Empire and the population within Constantinople itself dropped from 400,000 in the 12th ...

The Siege of 1453 was a defining moment for Constantinople and the world. The city, once considered impregnable, faced the formidable forces of the Ottoman Empire led by Sultan Mehmed II.

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 ...

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's "Letters," descriptive of Turkey, are still delightful reading, and so are Mrs. Max Muller's "Letters from Constantinople." As far as Stamboul is concerned, there may ...

When he travels to Constantinople to study, he meets Armenian Ana (Charlotte Le Bon) and falls in love with her ... of the 20th century when the Turks exterminated the Armenian minority.