In 1453, Constantinople was no longer the metropolis of Justinian. Its population had shrunk dramatically. Entire districts were fields. The Hippodrome lay in ruins. The Great Palace was largely ...

Shahla Tahmasbi is the translator of the book published by Now. Wedding elegant prose with impeccable historical research, this highly acclaimed history absorbingly charts the interaction between the ...

Constantine in pieces.(Richard Fidler) In 2014, Richard Fidler and his teenage son travelled to Istanbul to immerse themselves in the forgotten history of this city, once the capital of the Byzantine ...

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Once the Ancient Greek city of Byzantium, when the Roman Emperor Constantine moved the capital of his Empire to the Bosporus strait, it was renamed Constantinople in his honour. For centuries, many ...

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 ...

In 717–18, Western civilization was hanging by a thread. Today, August 15, marks the anniversary of Constantinople’s victory over Muslim invaders in what historians commonly call the “Second Siege of ...

In 1204 the soldiers who had set out to retake Jerusalem in the Fourth Crusade changed course—but why? The result would change medieval Europe forever. THE FINAL ATTACKThis 15th-century miniature, ...