Throughout its centuries-long existence, the Hagia Sophia has been a place of worship for many different religions and ...

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In 1081, while the Byzantine Empire was mired in a succession crisis, Robert Guiscard, Norman Duke of Apulia-Calabria, sought ...

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One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

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The current Hagia Sophia was built in the 6th century when Constantinople — as Istanbul was then called — was the heart of the Orthodox Christian Byzantine Empire that emerged as Ancient Rome ...

These spectacular mosaics have managed to survive for centuries and are part of a rich religious and political history from the 6th to 14th centuries AD ... fascinating and inspiring history of the ...

A sixth-century "mini" ice age may have been "the straw that broke the camel's back" that led to the final disintegration of the Western Roman Empire, a new study claims ... supported by historical ...

A sixth-century "mini" ice age may have been "the straw that broke the camel's back" that led to the final disintegration of the Western Roman Empire, a new study claims.

Istanbul’s skyline appears to be peppered with look-alike large mosques with Byzantine ... later 15th century, strove to copy its dome and interior." Historians say the Ottoman Empire grew ...