On 6 April 1453, the Siege of Constantinople began under the command of Mehmed II, an Ottoman sultan who was just 21 years old but determined to see through his father’s dream of capturing the ...

This week marks the anniversary of one of the sadder days in the history of both Christianity and the Western world, although almost no one will mark its passing. Saturday, May 29, is the anniversary ...

Depiction of the fall of Constantinople at the Military Museum in Istanbul. Credit: Dosseman / Wikimedia Commons In 1411, unable to gather followers to conquer Edirne, he was forced to renounce his ...

The Byzantine Empire considered itself to be the caretaker of the Christian religion. The emperor was chosen by God and God had chosen the empire as the wheel to spread Christianity. Christianity was ...

Considering it took place some 500 years ago, the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453 feels like it happened only yesterday -- at least in Istanbul. In recent years, an Ottoman history magazine ...

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L'Esprit Créateur, Vol. 53, No. 4, The Turk of Early Modern France (Winter 2013), pp. 124-138 (15 pages) Thanks to the Mellon Foundation and to the National Humanities Center for support in ...

On May 29, 1453, Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire, was captured by the Turks. In 1736 American patriot Patrick Henry was born in Hanover County, Va. In 1790 Rhode Island ratified the ...

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