Tiphsah Zeugma
Tiphsah/Zeugma (Thapsacus)
Thapsacus – An Ancient City on the Euphrates River
Thapsacus (also called Tipsah) was an important ancient town along the western side of the...
Church of the Saints Sergius and Bacchus and the Armenian Patriarchate
A Testament to Byzantine Splendor
Situated on Kûfiik Ayasofya Avenue in Sultanahmet, the Church of the Saints Sergius and Bacchus, also known as the Little...
Unveiling Istanbul’s Christian Heritage
Silivrikapı Panagia Pege Church and the Ecumenical Patriarchate
Testament to Byzantine Faith
Silivrikapı Panagia Pege Church, erected between 457 and 474 under the reign of Emperor...
Exploring Christianity’s Legacy in Istanbul
Christianity played a significant role in the history of Istanbul, formerly known as Constantinople during the Byzantine Empire. As the official religion of the...
Antioch and the larger Egypt behind Alexandria
The fourth and last piece of advice that even a contemporary might have given Justinian and that he should have heeded was straightforward—to take...
Coming down through the Caucusus
For that boundary to remain hostile, armed, and simultaneously attractive and difficult (attractive to merchants, difficult for all) created and perpetuated exactly the weakness...
Christians to be a political force
Finally, there were matters emperors were incapable of understanding, or understood but rarely. Chief among them were religion and economics. No one—unless we make...
Constantine saw Hosius of Cdrdoba
“One thing, Augustus.” It was Marcellinus. “Is it true that you have become a Christian?”
In his chair on the front row of seats in...
Political alliance between Maxentius and Maximin
“How could we, when it would mean our death?” the old nobleman cried. “We only managed to escape by smuggling ourselves aboard a galley...
