The Kingdom of Thessalonica was a short-lived state that emerged during the Fourth Crusade after the sack of Constantinople ...

In the Byzantine Empire of the medieval period ... well defended as well - in the early medieval period, Constantinople built some of the heaviest walls of all of Mediterranean Europe.

On 6 April 1453, the Siege of Constantinople began under the command of Mehmed II, an Ottoman sultan who was just 21 years old but determined to see through his father’s dream of capturing the ...

He writes: "My aim was to produce a clear account of the long history of the Byzantine Empire based on the latest research ... The fascinating last chapter recounts the fate of Constantinople and its ...