On May 29, 1453, the Ottoman army under Sultan Mehmet II broke through the walls of Constantinople, conquering the capital and last major holdout of the Byzantine Empire. In much of the world ...

The Turks entered Constantinople one hour after midnight, May 29, 1453. The Greeks fled in defeat, and spread consternation everywhere through the city. In a moment the streets were filled with a ...

Successive attacks from the Latins, Serbs, Bulgarians and Ottoman Turks, as well as mass fatalities from the Black Death, had weakened the Byzantine Empire and the population within Constantinople ...

David Sommerstein Constantinople, music from the global crossroads, this weekend in Saranac. Kiya Tabassian leads the group and plays the Persian setar, the predecessor of the Indian sitar.

The Metropolis of Kyiv had been part of the Constantinople Patriarchate from the Christianization of Kyivan Rus in 988 until 1686. The Constantinople Patriarchate also created a stavropegion in Kyiv – ...

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 ...