In the past few weeks, a conflict between Ankara and Baghdad over Turkey’s role in the liberation of Mosul has precipitated an alarming burst of Turkish irredentism. On two separate occasions, ...

This process came to a conclusion in 1453 with the conquest of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine empire. ... A map of the Ottoman Empire in 1683, and Turkey today.

It can only really be compared to the Roman Empire, which it replaced when it conquered Constantinople in 1453. It ruled all or part of at least 37 countries and left a lasting cultural impact on ...

The players are present-day Istanbul (formerly Constantinople), the ancient Greek port and imperial capital of two enormous, ...

This episode begins season two of the animated documentary series on the rise of the Ottoman Empire. After conquering Constantinople in 1453, the Ottomans began reshaping the city into their ...

The cataclysmic fall of Constantinople, and its eventual renaming as Istanbul, signaled the rise of the Ottoman Empire not only as a power in the Middle East, but also its expansion as a European one.

And in 1453, Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II towed his ships across Galata over greased logs, leading to the Ottoman victory by allowing between 100,000 and 200,000 Ottoman troops to reach Constantinople ...