One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

There is no other place on Earth where Christian mosaics of saints and Byzantine rulers are juxtaposed ... the last standing symbol of their empire. But in 1453, when Ottoman sultan Mehmed II ...

The Byzantine Empire lasted until 1453, when Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) was conquered by the Ottoman Turks. Through the past two centuries, fabled Byzantium was reduced to little more ...

At the heart of Venice’s globally renowned St. Mark's Square sits Biblioteca Marciana, a library filled with the ghosts of a ...

In other words, the Eastern Roman Empire, or the Byzantine Empire, lasted for quite some time; from 284 to 1453 (the first division of the Roman Empire). Byzantium was known as the richest and most ...

A more accurate description might be the “mostly Catholic German federation.” In this book, Anthony Kaldellis (Professor and Chairman of the Classics Department at The Ohio State University) argues ...

When Constantine succeeded his childless elder brother, John VIII (reigned 1425-1448), the empire was in a sorry state ... of the Chronicle of George Sphrantzes (1980), an important source on late ...

Empire until the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453. During the Byzantine period the spoken language continued to develop without the archaizing tendencies of the written language.