Bulgarian Patriarch and Metropolitan of Sofia Patriarch Daniil led a festive liturgy at the Bulgarian Orthodox St Stephen Church in Istanbul on Saturday, the feast day of St Stephen the Protomartyr, ...

The grant opening of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, the center of Orthodox Christianity for a millennium was held on ...

The Church of Hagia Sophia (literally "Holy Wisdom") in Constantinople, now Istanbul, was initially dedicated 360 by Emperor ...

The next few decades saw many turbulent changes, among which a war with the Timurid Empire to the east, a civil war between ...

Russia's ghost fleet of sanctions-busting oil tankers are using the Turkish-controlled Bosphorus to reach the Black Sea, causing headaches for Turkey.

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His data-driven artworks are redefining contemporary art, using artificial intelligence not as a tool, but as a creative ...

The five cities with the highest amount of international travelers in 2025 represent a growing travel trend, according to the ...

In 1896, a new entertainment district on the shores of a man-made lake by Lagymanyos in Budapest was opened to the public. The promised novelty was irresistible: a place dubbed Konstantinapoly ...

Pope Leo lamented during his first trip outside Italy as Catholic leader on Thursday that the world was seeing an unusual ...

Istanbul’s jailed mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, was brought to the city’s main courthouse on Sunday (October 26, 2025) to face questioning as part of a newly launched investigation into possible charges of ...

Istanbul has stood at the crossroads of civilization for millennia, from Biblical times, when it was known as Byzantium, to Constantinople during the Roman era, to more than 450 years under the ...