Kiev held a mass to thank Constantinople for recognising the Ukrainian Church's independence The Russian Orthodox Church has cut ties with the Church leadership in Istanbul, the Constantinople ...

Istanbul remained the centre of the Orthodox Church after the Muslim Ottoman Turks occupied the city, then known as Constantinople, in the 15th Century. The event at St George's cathedral was ...

John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, followed by the rise of the Ottoman Turks in the 15th Century. Using monuments in Istanbul to ...

A scribe working in Constantinople handwrites a copy of the ... in the library of The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Istanbul, identifies the underlying layer of text as the work of Archimedes ...