Travel through Constantinople in 1453, just before the Ottoman conquest ended the Eastern Roman Empire. Experience the city's ...

What happened after the Ottomans took Constantinople in 1453? In this new season of Kings and Generals’ Ottoman Empire documentary, we explore the transformation of the former Byzantine capital into ...

It's Istanbul, not Constantinople, that straddles the Bosporus Strait today. But more than half a millennium ago—on May 29, 1453—it was Constantinople, then the last bastion of the Roman Empire, that ...

On 6 April 1453, the Siege of Constantinople began under the command of Mehmed II, an Ottoman sultan who was just 21 years old but determined to see through his father’s dream of capturing the ...

GREEKS still consider Tuesday an unlucky day. May 29th 1453, was a Tuesday; the day that Constantinople, the place they called—and often still call—the queen of cities, or simply “the city” was ...

Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. xvi, 334+. Illus., maps, gloss., personae, notes, biblio., index. $29.99. ISBN: 0197827500 The Fall of ...

The Byzantine Empire considered itself to be the caretaker of the Christian religion. The emperor was chosen by God and God had chosen the empire as the wheel to spread Christianity. Christianity was ...

Considering it took place some 500 years ago, the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453 feels like it happened only yesterday -- at least in Istanbul. In recent years, an Ottoman history magazine ...