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

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 ...

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

The Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle at Legnano. 1415: Pope ...

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

Yet we are being forced to break all canonical rules and to unilaterally place ourselves under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople,” ERR reported. In March, Metropolitan ...

in effect calling for him to be barred from becoming the next patriarch of Constantinople. These calls have come as Turks have protested the arrest by Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s regime of opposition ...

Ana Kasparian of "The Young Turks" erupted at her co-host when he suggested Vice President Kamala Harris could be the future governor of California, whether one likes it or not. As some liberals ...

This essay examines the fall of Constantinople in 1453 as a critical juncture for ... A question may arise as to whether the Orthodox clergy were referring to Muslims or Turks in their discourse. In ...