Constantinople. The City of the World’s Desire. The largest city in Christendom for nearly a thousand years. Surprisingly few remember this grand city, capital of two of history’s greatest empires: ...

Constantinople fell, and Emperor Constantine XI’s sacrifice marked the end of an era and a legacy of faith and defiance.

The fall of Constantinople, on May 29,1453 was the final phase of the Byzantine-Ottoman Wars and the darkest page in Greek ...

This is the story of Constantinople’s fall, how Europe’s richest city fell to the Turks and became known as Istanbul: the ...

The Turks entered Constantinople one hour after midnight ... Divine wrath, so long staid, was falling with certainty on Byzantium. The crowds trembled and women fainted. In a trice the doors ...

Constantinople, the magnificent capital of the Byzantine Empire, fell to the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmed II ...

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 ...

Historians have chosen the year of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans, 1453, as a reference point to mark the end of ...

The Conqueror was not only a great military commander and statesman, but also a brilliant scientist who was a pioneer in ...

we reminded ourselves of the fall of Constantinople in May 1453. On May 29, 1453, the city of Constantinople was besieged by the Turks. The city, "second Rome", then acted as a bulwark for ...