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

On the Conquest of Constantinople is one of the most important historical sources on the Fourth Crusade and the Sack of ...

Drawing heavily from antiquity, the Byzantine contribution to education and higher learning is immense, despite often being overlooked.

Sir Steven Runciman’s lapidary account of the siege and fall of Constantinople in 1453, now forty years old, was a lamentation for the civilisation and the people he loved: ‘In this story,’ he wrote, ...

Thousands of Albanians gathered in the capital on Thursday to pay their last respects to Archbishop Anastasios, who revived ...

Before the Crusades ... Within half a century of the fall of Constantinople, the Europeans led on the one hand by the Spanish and the Portuguese on the other had succeeded in reaching the New ...

The author looks at the defining features and similarities of work by Hieronymus Bosch, Max Beckmann and William Kentridge ...

“No doubt that as a personality and as an archbishop Anastasios was irreplaceable,” said Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople ... cathedral in Athens before the procession ...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew spoke out on a possible agreement on a common Easter date for Rome and Constantinople. He stated that the Ecumenical Patriarchate is ready to duscuss this issue.

“No doubt that as a personality and as an archbishop Anastasios was irreplaceable,” said Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople ... a day before his funeral, inside the Cathedral ...

First, is there actually a growing trend of young men looking to become Orthodox Christians? Second, is it correct to ...