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.

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

From the Edict of Milan to the Council of Nicaea, St. Sylvester’s papacy marked a turning point for Christianity.

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.

The National Library of Spain preserves one of the most fascinating travel books from the Late Middle Ages, following the ...

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

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 ...

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

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

For much of its history, Russia, and its predecessor Muscovy, have been a land power. It was only at the turn of the 18th ...