Based on the presence of the cross and the pottery and glass pieces that were found, this tomb dates back to the Byzantine ...

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What happened after the Ottomans took Constantinople in 1453? In this new season of Kings and Generals’ Ottoman Empire documentary, we explore the transformation of the former Byzantine capital into ...

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Historians have chosen the year of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans, 1453, as a reference point to mark the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Modern Age. The capital of the ...

Emperor Constantine XI fought to the end as Constantinople fell to the Ottomans on May 29, 1453, marking the collapse of the Byzantine Empire. Credit: Theophilos Hatzimihail, Wikimedia Commons, Public ...

1453 was the final phase of the Byzantine-Ottoman Wars (1265-1453) and the darkest era in Greek history and in the Orthodox Church. Having been the seat of the Byzantine Empire for a millennium, ...

Commonly known as the Byzantine Empire, it was a syncretic melding of ... The “West” didn’t come to the city’s rescue in 1453. As many Greeks say, “Better the Turkish turban than the ...

The Byzantine Empire (also known as Byzantium or the Eastern Roman Empire) was the eastern half of the Roman Empire that continued on after it collapsed. With its base at Constantinople (modern-day ...

This course examines the art and architecture of the Byzantine empire from its sources in Late Antique Rome to its fall in 1453 as well as its influence in the Orthodox Christian art of Russia, Greece ...