Not as widely known in the United States as St. Valentine are two other saints at the top of the list on Feb. 14, and recent ...

Today in History for Feb. 27: ...

Prologue For about a millennium the Mongol Turks have been targeting the Greeks. The Mongol Turks first appeared in the neighborhood of the Greek medieval ...

Homer's Epics, Iliad and Odyssey, brought the ideas of Greek civilization to the world, serving as the foundation of Western literature.

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

Small entities might once again need to relearn how to hedge between great powers. One forgotten highborn woman from history provides some ancient realist lessons.

Northeastern women’s hockey (18-10-1, 13-8-1 HE) faced off against the Boston University Terriers (19-8-1, 16-4-1 HE) Feb. 4 ...

On the Conquest of Constantinople is one of the most important historical sources on the Fourth Crusade and the Sack of ...

the Turkish name for Constantinople, a town in Bothnia [modern-day Finland], a city in Greece, [and] a circle on the globe,” and use those nine letters to spell out the name of a town in England.

In the 300s, the emperor Constantine I converted to Christianity, and a new Byzantine capital was founded in his name: Constantinople, which heralded the beginning of Byzantium’s golden age.