Kings and Generals has begun remaking its animated historical documentary on the rise of the Ottoman Empire, starting with ...
This is the story of Constantinople’s fall, how Europe’s richest city fell to the Turks and became known as Istanbul: the ...
In 1453, the Byzantine capital of Constantinople is surrounded by Ottoman Turks. The city is but a shadow of its former glory due to the empire's ever receding coffers, while the Ottoman Empire ...
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 ...