In 1453, Constantinople was no longer the metropolis of Justinian. Its population had shrunk dramatically. Entire districts were fields. The Hippodrome lay in ruins. The Great Palace was largely ...

Corfu, together with the other Ionian islands , formed an autonomous state with its own flag and parliament (Ionian ...

On May 29, 1453, the ancient Roman city of Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks. Many historians consider the ...

MANILA, Philippines — For 10 years, news of a galleon museum located at a popular mall complex in Pasay City floated since the groundbreaking was held in 2014. For years, an imposing structure that ...

Most history books say that the Roman Empire fell in 476 AD. In that year, the young emperor Romulus Augustulus was deposed by the Germanic general Odoacer. This event is often seen as the official ...

The Greek genocide and the Pontic genocide instigated by the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish national movement is a dark ...

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I ...

Part bathhouse, part social institution, the hammam has moved through centuries of Roman, Ottoman and Islamic history to ...

The fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD was a pivotal moment in human history, when Germanic chieftain Odoacer deposed teenage emperor Romulus Augustulus in Italy and set in motion the collapse ...

Emperor Constantine the Great. Credit: Flickr / Smabs Sputzer CC BY 2.0 Roman Emperor Constantine the Great officially declared Constantinople his “New Rome” and the capital of the Roman Empire on May ...

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene ...

Bowing to Arab pressure, Britain’s Ramsay McDonald government issued the infamous White Paper, limiting Jewish immigration to ...