Greek scholars made numerous and vital contributions to Italy’s Renaissance, helping bridge Eastern and Western intellectual ...

From the orchards of Kambos to the salons of Vienna and New York, the children of Chios carried their island with them—its ...

Everybody knows Venice, one of the most famous postcard cities in Italy. Indeed, the yearly number of visitors arriving at ...

Lisbon is one of the oldest European cities. Founded by the Phoenicians, Lisbon was also home to the Romans, the Alans, and ...

The first Orthodox Church in the US was established in New Orleans in 1864, built in 1866, by Greek merchants.

In 1081, while the Byzantine Empire was mired in a succession crisis, Robert Guiscard, Norman Duke of Apulia-Calabria, sought to take advantage and launched his conquest. To maintain appearances, he ...

Palestinian village is actually a Byzantine period synagogueDavid Cohen/Flash90 An article about a new book on "Palestinian history and culture," published in The Guardian, embarrassingly used a ...

Then I entered an entirely new and exotic realm — the eastern Roman Empire, a dominion that survived the fall of Rome in 476 by almost a thousand years. The Byzantine Empire lasted until 1453 ...