A contractor digging into the earth where the rubble of a destroyed house had been cleared away in northern Syria stumbled ...

It is found close to the entrance of the Dardanelles, which forms part ... including Alexander the Great, the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire. During the War of Chioggia in 1381, between ...

It eventually peters out inland unlike the Sea of Marmara, which leads to the Aegean Sea via the narrow Dardanelles Strait ... then capital of the Byzantine Empire. Sometimes called FSM Köprüsü ...

Greece dismissed Turkey's criticism over a map presented as a gift to Patriarch Bartholomew, saying the gift was "purely ...

strategically situated at the mouth of the Dardanelles, traded hands between almost every giant of antiquity. Alexander the ...

Having first decided on its feasibility in November 1914, in January 1915 the British government began planning the ill-fated attack on the southern Turkish straits, known as the Dardanelles ...

In 1453, Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul), the capital of the Byzantine Empire, was captured by ... restored Turkey's full sovereignty over the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara and the Bosporus.

The area was the scene of a major World War I battle when Allied troops launched an ill-fated land campaign to wrest the Dardanelles from the Ottoman Empire. It ended in bloody defeat for the ...

The finding was made during an excavation at the Harbor of Eleutherios, one of the ports of ancient Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. Archaeologists discovered a pair of 1,500 ...