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

Am I lucky, or what? Let me begin my story. While I was still at home, I started to plan the trajectory of my journey. One of ...

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

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 ...

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

AS we move into the New Year 2025, the traditional wish and greeting of "A prosperous New Year," the nostalgic Auld Lang Syne, and New Year’s resolutions now ...

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

The Church of Hagia Sophia (literally "Holy Wisdom") in Constantinople, now Istanbul, was initially dedicated 360 by Emperor ...

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

An exceptional discovery has brought to light the only known contemporary representation of the last emperor of the Byzantine Empire ... against the Ottoman conquest. Constantine XI heroically ...