The story of Constantinople is a fascinating one that dates back millennia to when this mega-city was a small Greek town ...

The conquest of Constantinople did not end the Fourth Crusade, it began a chaotic experiment in occupation that collapsed under revolt, poverty, and religious resistance. Follow the messy power ...

The life of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius (610–641), his military triumphs, reforms, and the establishment of Greek as the official language.

In April 1204, Crusader armies breached the walls of Constantinople after a brutal siege shaped by chance, wind, and desperation. What followed was not victory but catastrophe, as the greatest city in ...

After almost seven decades of isolation, the Macedonian Orthodox Church is no longer in schism with the rest of the Orthodox World, the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople has decided.

(RNS) — In September Patriarch Bartholomew I, the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, will travel from Istanbul to the United States to collect his Templeton Prize. In his 34 years on the throne ...