Opinion
Sean Munger on MSNOpinion

The sack of Constantinople in 1204, how the Fourth Crusade turned on the greatest city in Christendom

In April 1204, Crusader armies breached the walls of Constantinople after a brutal siege shaped by chance, wind, and desperation. What followed was not victory but catastrophe, as the greatest city in ...
The New York Times

CONSTANTINOPLE.; The Byzantine Period -- The Walls and Other Historic Places.

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Richard Fidler on Constantinople, the holy city that dazzled faraway lands

Constantine in pieces.(Richard Fidler) In 2014, Richard Fidler and his teenage son travelled to Istanbul to immerse themselves in the forgotten history of this city, once the capital of the Byzantine ...
Daily Times

The conquest of Constantinople 1453 — bridge between the East and the West

The Byzantine Empire considered itself to be the caretaker of the Christian religion. The emperor was chosen by God and God had chosen the empire as the wheel to spread Christianity. Christianity was ...
Corvallis Gazette-Times

Letter: The electronic walls of Constantinople

Continually my computer suffers virus attacks. Constantly my virus software defeats them. This seems to be a very common circumstance. However, it is an axiom of the horror that is war, that a good ...