The "Fall of Rome" usually refers to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century A.D. But historians don't agree about the exact date, nor about its causes. And some historians argue ...

The Byzantine Greeks are a nation that is very often misunderstood for a number of historical and political reasons.

The eastern Roman empire was founded by Constantine the Great on May 11, A.D. 330. The empire fell on May 29, 1453, when the army of the Ottoman sultan Mehmet II breached the walls of Constantinople.

Geneticists have shed new light on the effects of the Roman Empire on Southeast Europe. New DNA analysis has shown how the rise and fall of the empire influenced populations in the Balkans—a region of ...

In A.D. 1475 the Principality of Theodoro fell to an Ottoman siege. The final rump state of a rump state of what had once been the Eastern Roman Empire, Theodoro’s fall had been inevitable since the ...

What would the modern world look like if Constantinople never fell in 1453? Imagine a Mediterranean that remained a Roman lake. No Ottoman conquest. No sack of 1204. A powerful Eastern Roman Empire ...

How often do you think about the Roman Empire? If you have an answer, you’re not alone. The Roman Empire is seeing a surprising resurgence this week, thanks to a recent TikTok trend, where videos with ...