Constant reader Ruth (and granddaughter Maeghan) were sailing through the Bosphorus and sent me a note Tuesday morning. The subject line was, “It’s Istanbul, Not Constantinople Now.” I don’t know if ...
It's Istanbul, not Constantinople, that straddles the Bosporus Strait today. But more than half a millennium ago—on May 29, 1453—it was Constantinople, then the last bastion of the Roman Empire, that ...