For centuries empires were the dominant form of political organisation. In the west there is some degree of familiarity with the British, French and German empires, and the empires of Spain and ...

Relive the dramatic fall of Constantinople in 1453, the siege that ended the Byzantine Empire and reshaped world history. This video explores the Ottoman assault led by Sultan Mehmed II, the massive ...

The Yunus Emre Institute in Cairo (Turkish Cultural Centre) hosted a symposium and photo exhibition titled “Hagia Sophia: The Jewel of Istanbul,” highlighting the monument’s historical and cultural ...

Control of the Mediterranean has been one of the most important triggering factors of the constant conflicts that marked the ...

The Byzantium Empire was the longest lasting empire in the western world. It was inaugurated in 330 A.D. when Roman Emperor Constantine the Great moved the capital of the Empire from Rome to Byzantium ...

Archaeologists uncovered a 12th-century Byzantine church built over a Roman settlement near Ahtopol on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria.