This essay examines the fall of Constantinople in 1453 as a critical juncture for the playing out ... tensions that were so profound that many Orthodox Christians preferred Ottoman rule over ...

During the First Balkan War, the armies of the Balkan League—Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, and Montenegro—scored victory after victory against the ailing Ottoman ... fall of Constantinople in 1453 ...

Built as Byzantium, and then renamed Constantinople, Istanbul officially received its present name on this day in 1930.

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 ...