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.

The fall of Constantinople, the last bastion of the Roman Empire, triggered an intellectual exodus that would ignite the ...

In 1952, a very secular Turkey joined NATO amid concerns that the Soviet Union be problematic. Membership in NATO provided ...

On a visit to feline-friendly Turkey, an anthropologist considers what long-standing practices of caring for cats reveal about human societies.

As they try to take Constantinople, the surf will turn ... Luckily, they're about to get a boost from the internal strife of the Ottoman Empire. So long as the British promise to help establish ...

Greece’s second city, Thessaloniki, opened its first metro transit system for passengers on Saturday, 30 November 2024, more ...

The week between Christmas and New Year is not one for self-improvement. January is when we can be dry and fit and mindful, ...

A few decades before, in 1453 to be exact, Constantinople, capital of the Eastern portion of what remained of the once mighty ...

Athens is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It has been a place of human settlement for at least 5,000 years.

On December 22, 2024, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan rallied a crowd of his Islamist supporters in Mardin, not far ...

It dates to the 15th-century fall of the great empire and offers a vision of the man painted according to his likeness.

Is this the fall or the rise of Syria? Depending on where one stands, it foreshadows the answer to that question. Given the ...