Designed to mimic the plot of Orhan Pamuk's eponymous novel, the museum details an impossible love affair and an obsession ...

Every day, ferries of all shapes and sizes glide across the waters of Istanbul, their wakes intertwining to form intricate ...

This is the story of Constantinople’s fall, how Europe’s richest city fell to the Turks and became known as Istanbul: the story of the Great Siege of 1453.

The City as vision: Prophecy, ideology, and the Megali Idea The fall of Constantinople, paradoxically, became a unifier. Despite regional identities, all Greeks looked to the City as a spiritual ...

Constantinople, originally founded as Byzantium by the ancient Greeks in 657 BCE, became the capital of the Byzantine Empire in 330 CE under the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great. In 1453, it was ...

This is the story of Constantinople’s fall, how Europe’s richest city fell to the Turks and became known as Istanbul: the story of the Great Siege of 1453. When history's greatest ...

ISTANBUL, TURKEY – On this day in 1930, the ancient city of Constantinople was officially renamed Istanbul by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s government, a landmark move in Turkey’s drive to assert a unified ...

The current Hagia Sophia was built in the 6th century when Constantinople — as Istanbul was then called — was the heart of the Orthodox Christian Byzantine Empire that emerged as Ancient Rome ...

Istanbul is one of the world's biggest cities, growing larger still every year. Its rapid expansion is putting enormous stress on its water supplies.

In January 2021, the residents of Istanbul slowly, and then quickly, became inundated with ominous headlines: Istanbul could run out of water in 45 days.

What new major serious threat is coming from Istanbul and Erdoğan for Greece, Israel, Cyprus, and Egypt? After the Kurds, Americans, and British nationalists (as some call them within our country), ...

The new discoveries at Hagia Sophia show that Justinian's great cathedral was part of a much larger complex of buildings at the heart of the late Roman (Byzantine) imperial capital, Constantinople ...