In the Ottoman era, “Turk” essentially meant “Muslim.” A Catholic Albanian, a Greek Orthodox, or a Jew who converted to Islam ...

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 ...

helping persuade Britain and France to attempt to knock the Ottoman Empire out of the war by forcing the Turkish straits and capturing Constantinople—setting the stage for Gallipoli. For their ...

And the enduring power that we're looking at in this programme is the Islamic Ottoman Empire that, by 1500, had conquered Constantinople and was moving from being a military power to an ...

In 1453, the Byzantine capital of Constantinople is surrounded by Ottoman Turks. The city is but a shadow of its former glory due to the empire's ever receding coffers, while the Ottoman Empire ...

But in 1453, the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Mehmed II captured Constantinople, finishing off the Byzantine Empire once and for all. On entering the Hagia Sophia, Mehmed II insisted it be ...

“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 ...