The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West Roger Crowley Hyperion: 304 pp., $25.95 Constantinople's fall and the gate left open - Los Angeles Times ...

Scientists investigated the longest aqueduct of the time, the 426-kilometer-long Aqueduct of Valens supplying Constantinople, and revealed new insights into how this structure was maintained back ...

The late Roman aqueduct provided water for the population of Constantinople. The Roman Empire was ahead of its time in many ways, with a strong commitment to build infrastructure for its citizens ...

On the Capture of Constantinople. Share full article. June 17, 1894. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from June 17, 1894, Page 22 Buy Reprints.

It's Istanbul, not Constantinople, that straddles the Bosporus Strait today. But more than half a millennium ago—on May 29, 1453—it was Constantinople, then the last bastion of the Roman ...

On May 29, 1453, the Ottoman army under Sultan Mehmet II broke through the walls of Constantinople, conquering the capital and last major holdout of the Byzantine Empire. In much of the world ...