Prussia was undoubtedly one of the most important actors in Europe’s Early- and Late Modern periods. It has a fascinating ...

May 29, 1453, is one of those landmark historical dates. On that day the fall of Constantinople occurred —and with it that 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 ...

The siege of Constantinople by the Avars in a fresco in the Romanian monastery of Moldovita. Credit: DimiTalen / Wikimedia Commons Although the most famous one was carried out by the Ottomans in 1453, ...

On May 29, 1453, Ottoman forces, under the leadership of Mehmet II, concluded their long and bloody siege of Constantinople by storming the city and overtaking it. According to Crowley, who works in ...

The Byzantine Empire considered itself to be the caretaker of the Christian religion. The emperor was chosen by God and God had chosen the empire as the wheel to spread Christianity. Christianity was ...

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During his general audience on April 29, Pope Benedict XVI continued his teachings on the great medieval writers of the Church from the East and the West. He offered his reflections on St. Germanus, a ...

After the Ottoman's defeat the Serbian Lazar at the 1389 Battle of Kosovo, their new Sultan Bayezid I continued their ...