The Greek fleet, led by Rear Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis, was comprised of the 9,960-ton armoured cruiser flagship Georgios Averof ...

Hagia Sophia remains the symbolic center of Greek Orthodoxy even centuries after its fall to the Ottomans and conversion to a ...

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.

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

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

Country Life's reviewers name the books that have most absorbed them this year, with topics ranging from grey partridges to ...

In 1453, as the ancient walls of Constantinople crumbled under Ottoman cannons, an unexpected chain of events was set in motion that would reshape the course of human knowledge. The fall of ...

Turkey’s place in the NATO alliance has increasingly become a contentious issue. Originally joining NATO in 1952 as a bulwark against Soviet expansion, Turkey has shifted dramatically over the ...

In 1453 the Ottomans under the command of Sultan Mehmet II took the ancient capital of the Eastern Roman Empire ... of Constantinople threatened to unleash the intervention in Eastern Europe of the ...

By the Middle Ages, Constantinople had emerged as a global hub of trade ... “Culinary culture of the Ottoman Empire was divided into two: the palace kitchen and the public kitchen.” While the palace ...

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 ...

Constantine XI Palaiologos ruled the Byzantine Empire for a short ... Following the fall of Constantinople, the harvesting farms of the snails were destroyed by the Ottoman Turks, but the ...