The last descendant of the Byzantine Emperor Constantine Palaiologos is buried in the most unlikely of places - on the island ...
The Siege of 1453 The Siege of 1453 was a defining moment for Constantinople and the world. The city, once considered ...
Rageh Omaar traces the history of the Ottoman empire. A super-power of a million square miles, it matched the glories of Ancient Rome and collapsed less than a hundred years ago ...
NARA--Artifacts recovered from an Ottoman Empire frigate that sank off Japan ... in 1890 with a messenger commissioned by the Ottoman emperor aboard. The ship encountered a typhoon on ...