Moreover, the Turks were expanding in Asia Minor at the cost of the Byzantine Empire that acted as the bulwark of Christendom although Constantinople's (Eastern Orthodoxy) 'Great Schism' with Rome ...

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As a student of history, Ridley Scott knows as well as anyone that the Crusades have been given the gauzy, soft-focus treatment by Hollywood.

Columbus was born into Europe’s anti-Islamic mind-set in 1451, raised on tales of the Crusades and the territorial losses his hometown of Genoa suffered after the Ottoman Empire’s capture of ...

Without the Crusades, it might well have followed Zoroastrianism, another of Islam’s rivals, into extinction. ~Prof. Thomas F. Madden, Godspy.com Hat tip to Paul J. Cella .

The 85 th Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, Bishop Sahak Mashalian will enter the Main Cathedral of the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople with a Glorious Ceremony. The Armenian Patriarchate ...