In a superb octavo volume, replete with valuable maps, plans, and illustrations, and bearing the title "Byzantine Constantinople ... in the history of the empire of which it was the capital.

In the Byzantine Empire of the medieval period ... well defended as well - in the early medieval period, Constantinople built some of the heaviest walls of all of Mediterranean Europe.

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

The Akathist Hymn, which is chanted on the first five successive Fridays of Lent in the Eastern Orthodox Church, is dedicated ...

For the Byzantine Empire around 1400 ... it was no more than a minor state that extended barely beyond the walls of Constantinople - modern Istanbul. All its provinces had been lost, most of ...

The Siege of 1453 was a defining moment for Constantinople and ... marking the end of Byzantine dominance. Walking along the remnants of these walls today, visitors can imagine the epic battles ...

The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy ... from the city officially named New Rome but commonly called Constantinople (“Constantine’s city”) and founded originally ...

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 ...