Mehmed IV wanted to live up to, and even surpass, the legacy of his forefather Mehmed II, who had secured the Ottomans' inheritance to the Roman Empire through his conquest of Constantinople.

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 ...

His parish falls under the administration of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople rather than the Russian Orthodox Church. Russia broke ties with the Constantinople Patriarchate in 2018 after ...

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 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.