Following the protests, the General Directorate of Cultural Assets and Museums filed a complaint against the responsible persons ...

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

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 ...

Turkey invests in capital goods through a mix of government-led projects, private sector contributions, and foreign direct ...

For the Byzantine Empire around 1400 ... than a minor state that extended barely beyond the walls of Constantinople - modern Istanbul. All its provinces had been lost, most of them conquered ...

The preservation of Byzantine mosaics in Istanbul’s ... Christian patriarchal cathedral built in AD 532-537 in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey). It was turned into an Ottoman imperial ...