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Fairfax, Va. – Eastern Christian Publications is honored to announce that its acclaimed series, Lectures from Oxford by the ...

Today is the great feast of the Church of Rome, born from the witness of the apostles Peter and Paul and made fruitful by their blood and that of many other martyrs.’ ...

Historians have chosen the year of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans, 1453, as a reference point to mark the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Modern Age. The capital of the ...

On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a ...

The “Alosis” (Ἅλωσις) — the capture — of Constantinople was not just the fall of a city but the collapse of a civilization, a bastion of Orthodox Christianity, Hellenic culture, and Roman law. Its ...

In a superb octavo volume, replete with valuable maps, plans, and illustrations, and bearing the title "Byzantine Constantinople," Alexander Van Millingen, Professor of History in Roberts College ...

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

Contemporary reports suggest that Constantinople’s defensive force consisted of less than 8,000 trained men to cover 12 miles of the city walls and 30 to 35,000 armed civilians, compared to ...

The Theodosian Walls protected Constantinople from a myriad of enemy invaders for just over ten centuries.