One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

While Malek Aiyaz was in favour of a naval confrontation with the Portuguese, Malik Gopi, as a farsighted diplomat, was the ...

It served as a church until the fall of the city to the Ottomans in 1453, when it became a mosque. In 1935, Mustafa Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey who forcibly remade the country into a ...

The Hagia Sophia of Istanbul is no stranger to change -- through the centuries the city's architectural jewel has gone from ...

Of course, there were also crucial differences. In this course you will learn about the main features of these early modern Islamic empires, with an emphasis on the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals.

Turkey is set to begin restoration and reinforcement work on the dome of the Hagia Sophia, in one of the biggest repair ...

It was hard to miss the note of alarm in a Hill headline on “Neo-Ottoman Turkey’s triumph over its regional rivals.” “Turkey,” Washington policy analyst Andrew Latham warned ...

Built by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian in 537, Hagia Sophia was turned into a mosque with the 1453 Ottoman conquest of Istanbul. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founding leader of the Turkish republic, ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey has begun a new phase in sweeping restorations of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, focusing on preserving the monument’s historic domes from the ...

People visit Byzantine-era Hagia Sophia mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel) ...

The first part of the program addresses the continuation of the Byzantine musical tradition immediately before and after the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453 in Greek lands under Italian ...