After a lengthy siege, the Ottoman army eventually breached the walls of Constantinople in 1453 and conquered it. With that, the Byzantine Empire was sacked, and the Ottoman Empire took over.

I maintain that the conquest this time will not be by the sword but by preaching and ideology …” On his weekly religious program on Al-Jazeera in 1999, Al-Qaradhawi made similar statements: “All right ...

Constantinople brings its global, improvisational sounds to the North Country with a concert Sunday, May 4 at 3pm at the historic Methodist Church in Saranac.

Armies aspire to conquer major cities for many reasons. A major city can have strategic importance, such as Constantinople, located at the narrowest point of the Bosphorus Strait, or Singapore, at ...