The Byzantine Emperor Justinian I came close to uniting the former Roman Empire less than a century after its fall. However, ...

The sun dips low over the rugged cliffs of Meteora, casting golden hues across monasteries perched impossibly atop stone ...

Initial attempts to reach the city were repelled but the Ottomans prevailed and the emperor Constantine XI was killed in the ...

Why did the inhabitants of Greece retain the name "Romans"? – What was happening during the years of the Turkish occupation? ...

The hilarious, long-out-of-print 1931 novel ‘Rabbi Burns’ gets the re-issue it deserves. The Academy Museum’s high-profile ...

The antisemitic genocide perpetrated by the Antonescu dictatorship led to mass emigration of surviving Romanian Jews to ...

What visiting this UNESCO World Heritage Site tells us about faith, politics, and power, Destinations News - Times Now ...

The Hagia Sophia is at the centre of Turkey's Byzantine, Ottoman and secular history. How did the sixth-century cathedral ...

During the 15th and 16th centuries, a wave of Greek Byzantine scholars arrived in Italy where they contributed tremendously ...

When Christianity became state-sponsored under leaders such as Constantine and Theodosius, governments systematically ...

Crusius plundered contemporary travel accounts for information alongside chronicles and histories. He recognised ...

Michael III, the "Alcoholic" Byzantine Emperor, ruled surprisingly well despite his controversial behavior and personal ...