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How did cardamom, a warm spice native to India, travel to the distant Northern European region of Scandinavia and become a ...

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Hagia Sophia remains the symbolic center of Greek Orthodoxy even centuries after its fall to the Ottomans and conversion to a ...

The story of Constantinople is a fascinating one that dates back millennia to when this mega-city was a small Greek town ...

While visiting eastern Turkey to climb Mount Ararat, I discovered a nice cafe called Ru Sahaf in the town of Doğubayazıt. I ...

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He tells us all about the key moments that transformed the Eastern Roman capital of Constantinople into the modern-day city of Istanbul.