A team of scholars has pinpointed the route Ottoman Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror (Mehmed II) used when he captured northern ...

Portugal suffered from a financial crisis . King Manuel I created golden wealth for his people by finding a sea route to ...

Istanbul is a city that reveals itself on its own terms for travelers who invest the time and energy to unpeel its many ...

SPI International has partnered with Thematic Channels sales house in Romania. It follows the launch by the Canal+ owned SPI ...

The Theodosian Walls protected Constantinople for just over ten centuries until the city fell to the Ottomans in 1453. Yet, the wall survived both the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, with sections of ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina is arguably in its biggest crisis since the end of the civil war (1992–1995) and the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement in 1995, ...

While the Eastern Roman Empire would continue to thrive, ultimately becoming known as the Byzantine Empire (and lasting until 1453, when the forces of Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire overtook ...