This animated documentary series traces the dramatic rise of the Ottoman Empire, from its origins as a small Turkic beylik to its conquest of Constantinople in 1453. Covering major battles like ...

and the Islamic Ottoman Empire. This is the story of Constantinople’s fall, how Europe’s richest city fell to the Turks and became known as Istanbul: the story of the Great Siege of 1453.

Growing regional tensions granted Turkey a unique opportunity to restore its significant power and influence lost after the ...

As a result, the Ottoman Empire’s minorities—particularly the ... Adrianople served as the Ottomans’ European capital until the fall of Constantinople in 1453, and contains treasures of ...

Built as Byzantium, and then renamed Constantinople, Istanbul officially received its present name on this day in 1930.

Alice Roberts goes to Ankara to visit the grave of Atatürk, who witnessed the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Then she goes to Bursa, where the tomb of Osman, the founder of the state, is located.