This is the story of Constantinople’s fall, how Europe’s richest city fell to the Turks and became known as Istanbul: the story of the Great Siege of 1453. When history's greatest fortification was ...

After the Ottoman's defeat the Serbian Lazar at the 1389 Battle of Kosovo, their new Sultan Bayezid I continued their ...

May 29, 1453, is one of those landmark historical dates. On that day the fall of Constantinople occurred —and with it that of ...

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 ...

Humphreys (Vlad: The Last Confession) offers a strong work of historical fiction set in the 19450s, about the battle of Mehmet, sultan of the Ottoman Turks, to conquer Constantinople, a target that ...

On May 29, 1453, Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire, was captured by the Turks. In 1790, Rhode Island ratified the U.S. Constitution, completing approval of the document by all 13 of the ...

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