COMMENTARY: Despite what desires remain in Rome for full communion, it is a complete impossibility when the two most ...

On January 13, 1914, a war council decided that while Russia land forces were ready for war, the Black Sea fleet couldn’t carry out an amphibious assault on Constantinople anytime soon.

The First World War was an unprecedented catastrophe that killed millions and set the continent of Europe on the path to further calamity two decades later. But it didn’t come out of nowhere.

Constantinople in War-Time. By H. G. Dwight. April 1913 Issue. Share. Save. I ‘THE hordes of Asia —' That phrase, fished out of what reminiscence I know not, kept running in my head as the ...

Today, August 15, marks the anniversary of Constantinople’s victory over Muslim invaders in what historians commonly call the “Second Siege of Byzantium,” 717–18. Prior to this massive ...

1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West Roger Crowley, . . Hyperion, $25.95 (304pp) ISBN 978-1-4013-0191-0 ...

Thebes, Carthage, Constantinople, Tenochtitlán: These civilizations were cut down in their prime, some with little warning.

Critics of the Patriarchate of Constantinople point out, on the other hand, that in 1922 the Greek Patriarch established Greek Orthodox Churches in the U.S., rivaling the Russian church’s presence.