The fall of Constantinople, on May 29,1453 was the final phase of the Byzantine-Ottoman Wars and the darkest page in Greek ...

Emperor Constantine (ca A.D. 280– 337) reigned over a major transition in the Roman Empire—and much more. His acceptance of Christianity and his establishment of an eastern capital city ...

In his new book The Silver Empire: how Germany created its first common currency, which forms the basis of this event, Oliver Volckart analyses why the vast majority of the approximate 300 members of ...

But the Holy Roman Empire had no core, because it never possessed a clear centre of government or even an official capital. Instead, power was always multiple and plural. The management of daily ...

The vast empire encompassed the entirety of the Mediterranean region with all roads leading to Rome, its sprawling capital. Known today as the Eternal City, Rome was the first ... Later, the rise of ...

At its peak in the first century A.D., the Roman Empire ... capital up to the eighth-century Moorish occupation. But by the time of the Christian reconquest in the 12th century, the city was ...