Imagine the walls that have soaked up 1600 years of history in one of Constantinople’s most important Byzantine monasteries, ...

Have you ever thought that politics feels like a rollercoaster, with machinations and sharp ups and downs similar to those of Byzantium?

Constantinople was officially renamed Istanbul by Atatürk’s government, capping a campaign begun in 1916 by Enver Pasha that ...

As the parodies of peace negotiations between Russia, Ukraine and America continue—most recently marked by the failed attempt to bring Putin and Zelenskyy together in Istanbul—Pope Leo XIV ...

The journey to Nicaea for the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea is expected to be the first international trip of ...

Throughout its centuries-long existence, the Hagia Sophia has been a place of worship for many different religions and ...

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The greatest early modern authority on Ottoman Greece was Martin Cruisius – a man who had never left Germany.

BYZANTINE. The largest of these eastern rites ... After the schism between the churches in Rome and Constantinople in 1054, many particular churches remained separated from Rome.

LLM contributor Natasha Bazika enjoys a city stay at this luxury hotel overlooking the lagoon and just steps from Piazza San ...

Think you know a thing or two about the past? Put your smarts to the test with these history trivia questions. How many of these history trivia questions can you get right? You may already have pop ...