How did Western Europe learn of the fall of Constantinople, the loss of Negroponte, and the Ottoman defeat at Lepanto? In the ...

The Greek Orthodox Church of the Pantocrator in Patras, Greece, stands out for having been modeled after Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.

While the Old World magic in many parts of the city has been plowed over by modern affluence, today's Istanbul is every bit as rich and rewarding.

Constantinople. The City of the World’s Desire. The largest city in Christendom for nearly a thousand years. Surprisingly few remember this grand city, capital of two of history’s greatest empires: ...

This was the name of the city when it was the capital of the ... The Patriarchate of Constantinople is a critical player in two volatile regions: the Middle East and eastern Europe.

It was later destroyed by followers of Saint John Chrysostom, a former archbishop of Constantinople who was banished from the city. Its second iteration was inaugurated in 415 CE by the emperor ...

and his use of the name Constantinople for the city as opposed to its post-1930 name, Istanbul. Recently, Turkish nationalists have called for his Turkish passport to be revoked and for him to ...

Contemporary reports suggest that Constantinople’s defensive force consisted of less than 8,000 trained men to cover 12 miles of the city walls and 30 to 35,000 armed civilians, compared to ...

Around five years after Justinian came to the imperial throne in AD 527, that rivalry ultimately generated an attempted revolution in which much of central Constantinople (including the city's ...

Paul Magdalino, Roman Constantinople in Byzantine Perspective. The Memorial and Aesthetic Rediscovery of Constantine’s Beautiful City, from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance (Brill Research ...