The Allied occupation of Constantinople, which has existed for nearly five years, officially came to an end when the last troops were evacuated from Turkish territory. The ceremony in itself was ...

Per the current plan, adopted in August 1913, Russia would mount an invasion of Constantinople with 128,000 troops within 15 days of mobilization (M+15).

One might point out that, when Athenagoras reached out to the OSS, his native Greece was under Nazi occupation. It is understandable that a Greek bishop in America would support the American war ...

On October 28, 1913, Lieutenant General Otto Karl Victor Liman von Sanders (top) signed a contract with Mahmud Muhtar Pasha, the Turkish ambassador to Berlin, putting von Sanders in charge of ...

Before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, ... Until 1686, the Lavra was directly subordinate to Constantinople. Only later was it incorporated into the structure of the Moscow Patriarchate.

Critics of the Patriarchate of Constantinople point out, on the other hand, that in 1922 the Greek Patriarch established Greek Orthodox Churches in the U.S., rivaling the Russian church’s presence.