The eastern Roman empire was founded by Constantine the Great on May 11, A.D. 330. The empire fell on May 29, 1453, when the army of the Ottoman sultan Mehmet II breached the walls of Constantinople.

Creation of the Walls Five different sets of walls have been built around the city of Constantinople, the most important of which was the last, built under the reign of Theodosius II, who came to ...

In a superb octavo volume, replete with valuable maps, plans, and illustrations, and bearing the title "Byzantine Constantinople," Alexander Van Millingen, Professor of History in Roberts College ...

They weren’t just walls - they were a message: “Do NOT enter.” Discover how the Walls of Constantinople held back invaders for centuries, and why their engineering still impresses military ...

Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, the Byzantine Emperor who preferred books and who offered us a detailed account of Byzantine ...

This book examines the interchange of architecture and ritual in the Middle and Late Byzantine churches of Constantinople (ninth to fifteenth centuries). It employs archaeological and archival data, ...

No, it’s not so scary that you’d die of fright. You could die just by holding the book, looking at the pictures. The book is titled Shadows from the Walls of Death, written by Robert Kedzie in ...

In researching that novel — which took Doerr 10 years to write — the author became fascinated by a much earlier history: that of the walls of Constantinople, built in the fourth and fifth ...

Historians have chosen the year of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans, 1453, as a reference point to mark the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Modern Age. The capital of the ...

The Theodosian Walls The Theodosian Walls were once the mighty fortifications that protected Constantinople from invaders. 5 kilometers and featuring multiple layers of defense.

Gail Vaughn, the owner of Walls of Books in Issaquah and Covington, the chain’s only locations west of the Rockies. Vaughn moved to Washington and opened her first ...