The story of Constantinople is a fascinating one that dates back millennia to when this mega-city was a small Greek town ...

Constantinople and the triple line of walls that were built over time. Credit: Jniemenmaa / Wikimedia Commons According to experts, what we know of that original wall is not due to Byzas but to the ...

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...

Europe is home to some of the most breathtaking palaces in the world, each one built to showcase power, wealth, and royal ...

On May 29, 1453, as dawn broke over the ancient walls of Constantinople, the thousand-year-old dream of a Roman Empire breathing through Christian lungs came to a shattering fall. Sultan Mehmed II’s ...

The City of Saints and doctrines, of Emperors and Patriarchs, the queen of cities, stood as the last bastion of Christendom in the East. Emperor Constantine XI PalaiologosRio, like another Leonidas, ...

The mausoleums and Tripolis Street in the north necropolis, the city walls from the south eastern Roman Gate to the travertine terraces, the Latrina located to the east of Domitian Gate, the ...

Between 378 and 718, Constantinople withstood more sieges than any city of its time—from Goths, Huns, Persians, Arabs, Russians, and others. Relations with the West rapidly deteriorated.

The City as vision: Prophecy, ideology, and the Megali Idea The fall of Constantinople, paradoxically, became a unifier. Despite regional identities, all Greeks looked to the City as a spiritual ...

The “Alosis” (Ἅλωσις) — the capture — of Constantinople was not just the fall of a city but the collapse of a civilization, a bastion of Orthodox Christianity, Hellenic culture, and Roman law. Its ...

As pope, Leo XIV has focused clearly on peace policy, swiftly addressing the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. In doing so, he joins ...

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