Saksagan
Functional Living in Kaleiçi
The entrance floors of the houses in Kaleici serve as warehouses, provision rooms, and service floors. Similarly, mezzanines have comparable functions. The kitchen, bath,...
The Magic of the Bosphorus
Necati Güngör’s compiled work, “Boğazın Büyüsü,” provides a literary perspective on the Bosphorus, allowing us to draw comparisons between its past and present.
The Bosphorus...
The First Church Dedicated to Virgin Mary
The First Church Dedicated to Virgin Mary and the World’s First Advertisement Hoard
The Double Churches, also known as the Consul Church, hold a distinctive...
Most likely of Scirian ancestry
The pattern Odoacer represents will be familiar by now. He is marked as a barbarian even though his success was entirely Roman. His father,...
Sidonius tells the story of a brave Roman war
The landscape was not without alarms and overreactions, betraying the tension in the air. In a poem of praise for the emperor Majorian, whose...
Transit Gloria Mundi
After Aetius’s death, twenty years unfold in a sequence of events of little interest except to specialists. The historian Procopius, writing 100 years later,...
The Accession of Alexius and Interfamily Power Struggles part 28
Therefore nothing of what had happened deterred Robert from the object he had set himself; and so with the remaining troops (for some by...
The Accession of Alexius and Interfamily Power Struggles part 27
For a heavy fall of snow and the winds rushing down from the mountains churned up the sea violently. Then the waves rose and...
The Accession of Alexius and Interfamily Power Struggles part 26
XII In this way then affairs in the East were lulled to rest. On reaching Dyrrachium Palaeologus sent off a runner with the news...
