The current ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, has balanced the growing power of Moscow, but the question ...

The Hagia Sophia of Istanbul is no stranger to change -- through the centuries the city's architectural jewel has gone from ...

With its strategic location on the Bosphorus peninsula between the Balkans and Bosphorus and the Mediterranean, Istanbul has been associated with major political, religious and artistic events for ...

The ancient city of Constantinople sprawls across two continents, and in 1930 it was renamed Istanbul. In 1935, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the modern Republic of Turkey, transformed Hagia ...

Constantinople, as Istanbul was known for centuries, owed its importance to the Emperor Constantine, who made it the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire in A.D. 330. Although an earlier basilica ...

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In the heart of Constantinople, Andreas Sarantidis, originally from Koufalia near Thessaloniki, teaches aspiring bouzouki ...

Turkey is not the first place that comes to mind when thinking about Greek music and the bouzouki. However, Andreas ...

A scribe working in Constantinople handwrites a copy of the ... in the library of The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Istanbul, identifies the underlying layer of text as the work of Archimedes ...

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The Basilica Cistern is Istanbul's largest surviving Byzantine ... fields – once supplied water to the Great Palace of Constantinople, a large palace that served as the main residence for ...