Initial attempts to reach the city were repelled but the Ottomans prevailed and the emperor Constantine XI was killed in the ...

The Hagia Sophia is at the centre of Turkey's Byzantine, Ottoman and secular history. How did the sixth-century cathedral ...

During the 15th and 16th centuries, a wave of Greek Byzantine scholars arrived in Italy where they contributed tremendously ...

This ambitious cross-cultural exhibition examines the complex links between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire ...

A new show illuminates the rich artistic wonders that arose out of the 400 years of commerce between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire ...

Byzantine-era monuments in Istanbul, Turkey, formerly the Byzantine capital city known as Constantinople, are being covered ...

Unofficially though, the revolution of the Hellenes against the Ottoman Turks started one day after ... as represented by the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantine Empire, in 1453, fell to the ...

This era of subjugation followed the decline of the Byzantine Empire, which had governed Greece and much of the eastern Mediterranean for over a millennium. The Ottoman advance into Greece gained ...

This animated documentary series traces the dramatic rise of the Ottoman Empire, from its origins as a small Turkic beylik to its conquest of Constantinople in 1453. Covering major battles like ...

Astronomers have spotted two fascinating exoplanets around TOI-1453. One is a super-Earth, the other an ultra-light sub-Neptune, possibly cloaked in a thick atmosphere. (Artists view of TOI-1453.) ...

The Ottoman victory at Gallipoli not only prevented the fall of Istanbul but also boosted the morale of the empire, proving that strategic intelligence and determination could overcome superior ...

and the Islamic Ottoman Empire. This is the story of Constantinople’s fall, how Europe’s richest city fell to the Turks and became known as Istanbul: the story of the Great Siege of 1453.