The once-great capital of the Roman empire, Constantinople ... to have someone from the 15th century telling you their ideas about what maps can do.” ...

The end of the Byzantine Empire While Constantinople was once again under control of a Greek ruler, its end was drawing near. The empire struggled on into the 15th century, but the emperors ...

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 ...