The Surp Krikor Lusavoriç church stands on the coastal road in the Istanbul neighborhood of Kuzguncuk. ... Jewish, or Armenian extraction, comprised 56 percent of the population of Constantinople.

Do they, actually? In the final Maphead of 2015, Ken Jennings goes down an ancient path in modern Istanbul to discover the "on-ramp" to roads across the known world.

Nineteenth-century geographers imagined the Silk Road as a one-way highway across Asia. The British Museum’s “Silk Roads” sets the exotica of camels, ... Kyiv to Constantinople.

The history of the Silk Road, a vast network of ancient and medieval trade routes connecting Beijing and Hangzhou with Constantinople and Cairo, has mostly been focused on its endpoints: China and ...

October 28, 1913: Showdown in Constantinople: The Liman Von Sanders Affair. On October 28, 1913, Lieutenant General Otto Karl Victor Liman von Sanders (top) ...

David Sommerstein Constantinople, music from the global crossroads, this weekend in Saranac. Kiya Tabassian leads the group and plays the Persian setar, the predecessor of the Indian sitar.