The fall of Constantinople, on May 29,1453 was the final phase of the Byzantine-Ottoman Wars and the darkest page in Greek ...

Constantinople. The City of the World’s Desire. The largest city in Christendom for nearly a thousand years. Surprisingly few remember this grand city, capital of two of history’s greatest empires: ...

Constantinople, the magnificent capital of the Byzantine Empire, fell to the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmed II ...

The true story of Byzantium's fall reveals a legacy betrayed by the West, misunderstood by the Left, and weaponised by the ...

has written five other books on Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, among them the somewhat wider-angle “Fall of the Sultanate: The Great War and the End of the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1922.” ...

The Last Days of the Ottoman empire: 1918-1922 ... What really matters is that the empire did fall. Or did it? By way of continuity, some historians note that the empire was itself reforming ...

The fall of the Assyrian empire happened quickly ... In the Middle East, the Assyrian Empire was followed by others, from the Persian up to the Ottoman Empire. Although empire is a shape-shifting ...

In his new book “Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire” (Basic Books ... from the Persian up to the Ottoman Empire. Although empire is a shape-shifting phenomenon, all these ...