When you think of Florence Nightingale, you probably imagine a nurse with a lamp, comforting soldiers. Indeed, Florence is considered the mother of modern nursing. But she also made serious ...

Last April, my husband Brent and I spent a month in Balat, a small neighborhood in Istanbul’s sprawling Fatih district. This was the heart of ancient Constantinople. Balat is now a popular ...

Istanbul, formerly known as Byzantium and Constantinople, is a city with a rich and storied history that spans over two millennia. Situated at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, Istanbul has been a ...

Kiev held a mass to thank Constantinople for recognising the Ukrainian Church's independence The Russian Orthodox Church has cut ties with the Church leadership in Istanbul, the Constantinople ...

it was the slightly less ancient city of Constantinople. Most of the city’s major tourist sights and attractions are here or ...

Constantinople – officially renamed Istanbul in the 1920s – has an extraordinary past, and an exhilarating present and future as modern Turkey wrestles with the present-day challenges and what the ...

Meagan Drillinger left New York City for a life on the road. She has spent the majority of her career traveling and living in Mexico, and is passionate about seeing destinations in a slow-paced ...

The Basilica Cistern is Istanbul's largest surviving Byzantine ... fields – once supplied water to the Great Palace of Constantinople, a large palace that served as the main residence for ...

and it is where you'll find most of Istanbul's highlights. This area holds a significant place in history, as it was once the city of Constantinople, the center of the Roman Empire. Multiple ...

Around 63% of Finns are Evangelical Lutherans, with only one per cent belonging to the Orthodox Church, the country’s second ...

Combining art rock and a sense of the absurd, They Might Be Giants has never fit comfortably into a musical genre. From their ...

Brigitte Pitarakis Source: YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies ‘Boeck undeniably grants one of Constantinople’s great marvels new life in a book that it isitself a marvel of inquiry.’ To save content ...