The defeat at the Battle of Manzikert was a pivotal moment for the Byzantine Empire as it allowed for the Turkification of ...

However, a recent study in the journal Klio by researchers Haggai Olshanetsky and Lev Cosijns challenges this view, suggesting that the empire may have actually experienced a population boom during ...

Credit: MapMaster / Wikimedia Commons As we were saying, Anna knew him because he was in Constantinople… as he had tried before in his youth, by force of arms: in 1080 Bohemond accompanied his father ...

Turkey scrubs up its baths to keep hammam tradition alive For centuries, hammams were central to Ottoman society, and while they mostly fell out of use with the advent of running water, many in Turkey ...

Pope Francis named a New Mexico pastor as bishop of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy, apostolic nuncio to the United States Cardinal Christophe Pierre announced on Friday. Father Artur Bubnevych ...

For centuries, hammams were central to Ottoman society, and while they fell out of use in Turkey with the advent of running ...

By Mekado Murphy ‘Conclave’ | Anatomy of a Scene The director Edward Berger narrates a sequence from his film, featuring Ralph Fiennes. By Mekado Murphy ‘Smile 2’ | Anatomy of a Scene ...

Chubby, obsequious and a flatterer, he is involved in court intrigues and manipulates people and events behind the scenes ... (What we now call the Byzantine Empire, or the Eastern Roman Empire ...

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We asked the BuzzFeed Community to tell us which TV scenes always make them laugh. Here are the hilarious results. 1. In "Abbott Elementary," when Barbara kept mixing up the names of her favorite ...

A lot of collaboration goes into sex scenes to ensure the actors and crew are prepared for filming. HBO Studios' Alicia Rodis, a pioneer of the intimacy-coordinator role that helps orchestrate sex ...