Andreas Syngros was born in 1830 in Constantinople, at a time when Hellenism in the Ottoman Empire was flourishing ...

Mehmed IV wanted to live up to, and even surpass, the legacy of his forefather Mehmed II, who had secured the Ottomans' ...

The Byzantine Empire faced numerous challenges, forcing many Greeks to employ genius tactics to defend the Empire.

On the Conquest of Constantinople is one of the most important historical sources on the Fourth Crusade and the Sack of ...

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

The sacred performance signals a deepening of Catholic-Orthodox dialogue and a potential step toward a papal visit to Serbia.

Thousands of Albanians gathered in the capital on Thursday to pay their last respects to Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the country’s Orthodox Christian Church after the fall of the country’s ...

Byzantium was named after its legendary founder, Byzas, and quickly grew in importance due to its location, which controlled ...

the Turkish name for Constantinople, a town in Bothnia [modern-day Finland], a city in Greece, [and] a circle on the globe,” and use those nine letters to spell out the name of a town in England.