"That is NOT Istanbul", commented several fans on Adult Swim's clip of Axel and Leland's trip to find Skinner's grandma.

Their queen is Calafia (also called Caliphia or Khalif), an Amazon convinced to form a powerful army of women warriors to join the Muslims and fight against the Christians in the battle of ...

On 6 April 1453, the Siege of Constantinople began under the command of Mehmed II, an Ottoman sultan who was just 21 years old but determined to see through his father’s dream of capturing the ...

For nearly a millennium, the magnificent structure of the Byzantine Empire stood as the world's largest church. When Constantinople (now Istanbul) fell to the Ottomans in 1453, Mehmed II the Conqueror ...

Rome and Constantinople began taking different paths long before the Great Schism of 1054. Credit: Alvesgaspar Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 The Orthodox and Catholic Churches have a long history ...

Devotional Hymns to the Theotokos are as ancient as the first Christian Church. From its inception at Constantinople during the fourth century, the Byzantine Empire closely allied itself to the Virgin ...

The backlash stems from comments the archbishop made during a Greek Independence Day event at the White House, where he mentioned the Ecumenical Patriarchate and used the term “Constantinople.” Erol ...

Built as Byzantium around 657 BC and then renamed Constantinople in the 4th century CE after Constantine the Great made the city his capital, the city of Istanbul officially received its present name ...

Originally known as the ‘Tower of Christ’ (Christea Turris), it was built in 1348 by the Genoese, who controlled the Galata quarter – located across the estuary of the Golden Horn outside the walls of ...

The famous tower, built in the 14th century by the Genoese colony of Constantinople, will become a historical ... a public tender that will take place at the end of June, so that the Galata Tower can, ...

After a failed try in January, which was postponed just one day before the scheduled upgrade date due to a security issue, Ethereum has now been upgraded to a new version called Constantinople.