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 ...

The Akathist Hymn, which is chanted on the first five successive Fridays of Lent in the Eastern Orthodox Church, is dedicated ...

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

Byzantine-era monuments in Istanbul, Turkey, formerly the Byzantine capital city known as Constantinople, are being covered ...

The interim president of Columbia University is stepping down, the school announced Friday, a week after announcing sweeping policy changes – seemingly bowing to the Trump administration’s demands ...

Some of my most vivid memories from my first visit to Istanbul in the 1970s are of the colorful locals. Scruffy kids sold ...

It’s hard to imagine Christianity without the Nicene Creed. Seventeen hundred years ago, what became the defining statement ...

Excavations have revealed stone walls with mud mortar, belonging to buildings whose exact function is still under investigation. The Via Militaris crossed the Balkans from Singidunum to Constantinople ...

In a superb octavo volume, replete with valuable maps, plans, and illustrations, and bearing the title "Byzantine Constantinople," Alexander Van Millingen, Professor of History in Roberts College ...

The Orthodox Church of Albania was declared autocephalous in September in 1922, after it had been subordinated to the archbishopric of Ohrid and the patriarchate of Constantinople. Joan Pelushi ...