On 6 April 1453, the Siege of Constantinople began under the command of Mehmed II, an Ottoman sultan who was just 21 years ...

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The Hagia Sophia is at the centre of Turkey's Byzantine, Ottoman and secular history. How did the sixth-century cathedral ...

following the conquest of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453. After the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the conclusion of World War I, the Hagia Sophia's status was changed again, becoming a ...

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

Hagia Sophia is an utterly unique building—a key monument in the history of architecture and a key symbol of the city of Constantinople right through to our time." Constantinople, as Istanbul ...

the Hagia Sophia, the most glorious Christian house of worship in the world (with the possible exception of the Chartres cathedral) was a mosque since the Islamic conquest of Constantinople in 1453.

According to legend, after the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453, three Venetian ships fled the city filled with various relics to avoid their capture by the Turks, but the third which ...

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John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine ... Greek Orthodox Christianity from within the Hagia Sophia. Norwich describes the calamitous scenes ...