The Siege of 1453 The Siege of 1453 was a defining moment for Constantinople and the world. The city, once considered ...

Istanbul is a city that reveals itself on its own terms for travelers who invest the time and energy to unpeel its many ...

Welsh great Dean Saunders scores the winning goal for the Istanbul giants at the Sukru Saracoglu Stadium to etch his name ...

Prologue An Orphic hymn says that Kypris, Aphrodite of Cyprus, was the “scheming mother of necessity.” She controlled and ...

The Hagia Sophia is a super famous building in Istanbul. Officially ... a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. So what is it? Church, mosque, or museum?

In ‘Our Story’, a fascinating Turkish drama starring Burak Deniz and Hazal Kaya, we follow Filiz as she takes care of her ...

The Theodosian Walls protected Constantinople for just over ten centuries until the city fell to the Ottomans in 1453. Yet, the wall survived both the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, with sections of ...

Welsh great Dean Saunders scores the winning goal for the Istanbul giants at the Sukru Saracoglu ... of victory at the Siege of Constantinople in 1453, and Souness is now fondly referred to ...

Amazing stories behind the world's most historic cities where every pavement, every monument, every corner has an incredible ...

Bilgi noted that after the conquest of Istanbul on May 29, 1453, "külliyes" (complexes) were built on the seven hills and that Fatih Sultan Mehmet also had a külliye built in the middle of the seven ...

It’s where you’ll find some of Istanbul’s most iconic landmarks ... and continued to provide water to the Topkapı Palace after the Ottoman conquest in 1453 and into modern times.

The bouquet had 1071 roses symbolizing victory at the Battle of Manzikert (Malazgirt) in that year that paved the way for Turkish dominance in present-day Türkiye, 1453 clovers symbolizing the year of ...