The story of Constantinople is a fascinating one that dates back millennia to when this mega-city was a small Greek town ...

The real Harald served Emperor Michael IV in Constantinople and led the Varangian Guard to many victories. The show takes creative liberties with Harald's story, depicting his affair with Empress ...

Constantine XI Palaiologos was the “last Christian Emperor of Constantinople and Byzantium,” according to the late English ...

Flip Van Tricht, The Latin Renovatio of Byzantium: The Empire of Constantinople (1204-1228) John Greville Agard Pocock, The historiography of the translatio imperii. Marshall T. Poe, “Moscow, the ...

From ancient Rome to new Constantinople, magnificent churches grew up, and within a hundred years of his death, Christianity was the major religion in the Roman Empire.

The current Hagia Sophia was built in the 6th century when Constantinople — as Istanbul was then called — was the heart of the Orthodox Christian Byzantine Empire that emerged as Ancient Rome ...

From that city, he went to Constantinople to serve the emperor, remaining there for the rest of his life and becoming a captain of the Varangian Guard. Trade routes of the Varangians to the east (in ...

Justinian, one of the greatest of Roman emperors, built Hagia Sophia and imposed his more centralized political system just two generations after the western European part of the Roman Empire had ...

Constantine XI Palaiologos ruled the Byzantine Empire for a short period between January 6, 1449 and May 29, 1453, dying in battle during the fall of Constantinople, when the capital was captured ...