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Introduction to the City Walls Stretching over a length of 103 kilometers, the city walls of Istanbul, also known as the Theodosian Walls, stand as...

The Studios Monastery A Byzantine Treasure Introduction and History The Studios Monastery stands as a testament to Byzantine religious architecture, being the oldest surviving structure of...

Kiztaji (Markianos Column) Located in a Fatih neighborhood of the same name, the Kiztap structure, or the Markianos Column by its Byzantine-era name, was constructed...

Enigmatic Istanbul is an endless story. It’s the story of Istanbul’s many names, the story of settling the city, ‘Opposite the blind’. Although these...

So we are approving here by these presents that it is permitted to replace the roof on the walls of your synagogue, and we...

And then there is Theoderic’s tomb. Built just outside the city walls of Ravenna, close to the harbor where ships from Constantinople and elsewhere...

Yet we have nearly 150 letters from Theoderic’s time that profess to be from his own hand, and come at least from the hands...

These latter added their own quota of evil as fuel to the general conflagration fired by their ruler, and the result was nothing but...

When the emperor saw this beautiful sight (he was particularly reverent in his veneration for this ikon) he immediately took heart, and holding it...

Here were those same men, who had brought a continent to terms, who in their preparations for war and in their military dispositions had...