Guyana Chronicle1d
AS WE MOVE INTO THE NEW YEAR 2025
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 ...
Greek Reporter1d
Hagia Sophia: The Center of Greek Orthodox Faith Through the Ages
Hagia Sophia remains the symbolic center of Greek Orthodoxy even centuries after its fall to the Ottomans and conversion to a ...
Greek Reporter2d
Constantinople: The Greek Settlement That Became World’s Greatest City
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.
La Brújula Verde7d
Tamerlane, the Turco-Mongol Leader Who Formed an Alliance with the Kingdom of Castile in the 15th Century
The National Library of Spain preserves one of the most fascinating travel books from the Late Middle Ages, following the ...
Greek City Times7d
Do You Know the Long History of the second most important city in Greece, Thessaloniki?
Greece’s second city, Thessaloniki, opened its first metro transit system for passengers on Saturday, 30 November 2024, more ...
The Nation Newspaper8d
The rise, rise and rise of capitalism (I)
A few decades before, in 1453 to be exact, Constantinople, capital of the Eastern portion of what remained of the once mighty ...
The Christian Post10dOpinion
Is Turkey really our NATO ally?
In 1952, a very secular Turkey joined NATO amid concerns that the Soviet Union be problematic. Membership in NATO provided ...
Country Life10d
Unputdownable: The books you wish you had been given for Christmas
Country Life's reviewers name the books that have most absorbed them this year, with topics ranging from grey partridges to ...
protothema.gr12d
Archaeological Discovery: This was the true face of the Marbled King
The history and characteristics of the unique surviving portrait of the last byzantine emperor, Constantine Palaiologos, ...
Greek City Times13d
From Ashes To Enlightenment: How The Fall Of Constantinople Sparked A Scientific Revolution
The fall of Constantinople, the last bastion of the Roman Empire, triggered an intellectual exodus that would ignite the ...
hispanatolia15d
1453, the fall of Constantinople: the end of one empire and the beginning of another
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 ...
The Indian Express17d
From Ottoman Empire to Berlin streets: The evolution of the döner kebab
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 ...