Up next at UCy’s 28th Cultural Festival in downtown Nicosia is a production by the Theatrical Workshop of the University of Cyprus (Thepak). This Thursday, June 26, at the Michalis Pieris Cultural ...

On May 29, 1453, the Ottoman army under Sultan Mehmet II broke through the walls of Constantinople, conquering the capital and last major holdout of the Byzantine Empire. In much of the world ...

Successive attacks from the Latins, Serbs, Bulgarians and Ottoman Turks, as well as mass fatalities from the Black Death, had weakened the Byzantine Empire and the population within Constantinople ...