Istanbul is a city that reveals itself on its own terms for travelers who invest the time and energy to unpeel its many ...

The Theodosian Walls protected Constantinople for just over ten centuries until the city fell to the Ottomans in 1453. Yet, the wall survived both the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, with sections of ...

The base case is $710,000, representing a CAGR of 40%, and the bull case of $1.5 million represents a CAGR of 58% and 1,453% upside from Bitcoin's current levels (as of Feb. 14). In ARK's Big ...

The Hagia Sophia is a super famous building in Istanbul. Officially ... a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. So what is it? Church, mosque, or museum?

Bilgi noted that after the conquest of Istanbul on May 29, 1453, "külliyes" (complexes) were built on the seven hills and that Fatih Sultan Mehmet also had a külliye built in the middle of the seven ...

ISTANBUL — Turkey’s Jewish community is ... after the Ottoman conquest of Istanbul – then Constantinople – in 1453. “We are deeply saddened by the loss of our esteemed elder, our Chief ...