The story of Constantinople is a fascinating one that dates back millennia to when this mega-city was a small Greek town known as Byzantium.

After the Roman Empire fell, Constantinople continued to be the capital of the ... Capital of both the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, it was a great city in both periods.

This decline culminated in the Ottoman Turks' conquering of Constantinople in 1453 AD. However, a new study suggests the empire actually flourished through a mini-ice age and the Justinianic Plague.

1915 with the arrest of several hundred Armenian intellectuals and representatives of national elite (mainly in the capital of the Ottoman Empire, Constantinople) and their subsequent elimination.

There were two main groups of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire: a small, powerful elite in cities such as Constantinople; and much larger peasant communities, mostly in eastern Anatolia ...

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 ...

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“Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the North Carolina Museum ... The players are present-day Istanbul (formerly Constantinople), the ancient Greek port and imperial capital of two enormous ...

From the mind of Gina Gershon springs the new Starz show, Harem, about an ambitious slave girl to a Sultan during the Ottoman Empire. I don’t have to tell you that if they miss the multitude of ...