This is the story of Constantinople’s fall, how Europe’s richest city fell to the Turks and became known as Istanbul: the story of the Great Siege of 1453. When history's greatest fortification was ...

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

Depiction of the fall of Constantinople at the Military Museum in Istanbul. Credit: Dosseman / Wikimedia Commons In 1411, unable to gather followers to conquer Edirne, he was forced to renounce his ...

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 ...

This week marks the anniversary of one of the sadder days in the history of both Christianity and the Western world, although almost no one will mark its passing. Saturday, May 29, is the anniversary ...

Humphreys (Vlad: The Last Confession) offers a strong work of historical fiction set in the 19450s, about the battle of Mehmet, sultan of the Ottoman Turks, to conquer Constantinople, a target that ...

A young and ambitious sultan ascends to the top of the Ottoman throne desperately seeking more power for his nation. Braving his enemies, he attempts the unthinkable and courageously tries to conquer ...