John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, followed by the rise of the Ottoman Turks in the 15th Century. Using monuments in Istanbul to ...

This decline culminated in the Ottoman Turks' conquering of Constantinople in 1453 AD ... "Why do empires fall? This is one of the questions that fascinate many, both in academia and among ...

It follows signs that Constantinople's Patriarch Bartholomew ... were set up during Ukraine's brief independence after the fall of the Russian empire and again after communism collapsed in 1991.