Istanbul, not Constantinople. How and why does our world's geography keep us on our toes? Image: Flickr user Library_of_Congress. This past week I did some Air Force Reserve duty.

They weren’t just walls - they were a message: “Do NOT enter.” Discover how the Walls of Constantinople held back invaders for centuries, and why their engineering still impresses military ...

After Justinian's death, the Byzantine Empire weakened and lost territory. In 1204, during the Crusades, the Byzantines were betrayed when crusaders from the west sacked Constantinople in an ...

Georges Kazan, ARKS OF CONSTANTINOPLE, THE NEW JERUSALEM: THE ORIGINS OF THE BYZANTINE SARCOPHAGUS RELIQUARY, Byzantion, Vol. 85 (2015), pp. 77-125 ...

Peeters is an international publishing house based in Leuven/Louvain, Belgium and established in 1857. It has since published some 6000 titles while each year about 200 new titles and 75 journals ...