Kings and Generals has begun remaking its animated historical documentary on the rise of the Ottoman Empire, starting with ...

This is the story of Constantinople’s fall, how Europe’s richest city fell to the Turks and became known as Istanbul: the ...

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 ...

By Michael Prodger, Megan Kenyon and Pippa Bailey The long conflict between Christendom and the Ottomans had any number of set pieces – the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Battle of Lepanto in ...

In 1453, the Byzantine capital of Constantinople is surrounded by Ottoman Turks. The city is but a shadow of its former glory due to the empire's ever receding coffers, while the Ottoman Empire ...