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Siege That Ended Constantinople

Relive the dramatic fall of Constantinople in 1453, the siege that ended the Byzantine Empire and reshaped world history. This video explores the Ottoman assault led by Sultan Mehmed II, the massive ...
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Archaeologists uncovered a 12th-century Byzantine church built over a Roman settlement near Ahtopol on the Black Sea coast of ...
I. B. Tauris, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, announced the publication of Prof. Harutyun Marutyan’s "Commemorating the ...
I.B. Tauris, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has announced the publication of Professor Harutyun Marutyan’s ...