This classic account shows how the fall of Constantinople in May 1453, after a siege of several weeks, came as a bitter shock to Western Christendom. The city's plight had been neglected, and ...

The year was 1453. For 55 days the city of Constantinople had been in the vise grip of an Ottoman siege. Constantinople had, of course, been besieged many times before by the Ottomans, or their ...

Mehmed II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, known in Turkish as Fatih, the Conqueror, was only 20 in 1453. Born in Edirne, the Ottoman capital zoo miles north-west of Constantinople, he had ...

John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, followed by the rise of the Ottoman Turks in the 15th Century. Using monuments in Istanbul to ...

Few realize that the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople is deeply beholden to the United States government. This ignorance is surprising, given that many Greek Orthodox leaders are quite ...

This was the custom in Constantinople until its fall in 1453 and in Russia until the reign of Peter I ... although reckoned according to a moveable calendar, usually falls in September. The service of ...

The Righteous Martyr Theodosia, having Constantinople as her homeland, struggled in asceticism in her own convent, which was located in that same imperial city. Filled with zeal for the veneration of ...

Collectively, Horseshoe Falls, American Falls ... it was converted into a mosque after the Turkish conquered Constantinople in 1453 before being secularised and repurposed as a museum in 1934.

vani_mehrotra/X Shocking video footage shows the moment Gudiya Devi slips and falls three stories to her death on Tuesday. vani_mehrotra/X Bunty and another friend then scramble down the stairs ...

Travel influencer Aanvi Kamdar tragically died Tuesday after falling over 300 feet while filming at a waterfall in India. The 27-year-old globetrotter, who worked as an accountant but regularly ...