Constantinople
former name of Istanbul.
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How to use Constantinople in a sentence
As the Gothic-led Western Roman state found itself in increasing tension with Constantinople, the fall of Rome emerged as a way to justify an Eastern Roman invasion that would restore Italy to Eastern Roman control.
Rome Didn't Fall When You Think It Did. Here's Why That Fabricated History Still Matters Today | Edward J. Watts | October 6, 2021 | TimeBy the time of Theoderic’s death in 526, Romans in Constantinople had begun considering the possibility of invading Italy.
Rome Didn't Fall When You Think It Did. Here's Why That Fabricated History Still Matters Today | Edward J. Watts | October 6, 2021 | TimeHe also participated in diplomatic missions and military actions in the Holy Land, Sicily and Constantinople itself.
If you love heroic fantasy a la George R.R. Martin, you’ll love ‘The Last Viking’ | Michael Dirda | September 22, 2021 | Washington PostConstantinople was the envy of the Western medieval world, a cosmopolitan center at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, Eastern Europe and Asia.
Anti-Blackness and transphobia are older than we thought | Roland Betancourt | June 16, 2021 | Washington PostFrom Constantinople in the east to Northern England, moving large volumes of water into towns and cities was vital to keeping them thriving for hundreds of years.
What good does it do a truck farmer when he knows Constantinople is the capital of Turkey?
Next morning Alcide packed my valise, and leaving him in charge of my apartments I took the Orient express for Constantinople.
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show | Robert W. Chambers | February 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe settled in Constantinople, where he had to start from scratch.
Large parts even of the city of Constantinople reverted to farm land.
Both built themselves new capitals, the Persian in Ctesiphon in Mesopotamia; the Romans in Constantinople.
We must make more—much more—elbow room before the Turks get help from Asia or Constantinople.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonEarly in the Seventeenth Century tobacco found its way to Constantinople.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.Barillet describes the growing of the common jasmine near Constantinople.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.John Cantacuzenus, the historian of his own times, and a defender of the faith, inaugurated emperor of Constantinople.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellTen short years ago, if K.'s heart had been set on Constantinople, why, to Constantinople he would have gone.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian Hamilton
British Dictionary definitions for Constantinople
/ (ˌkɒnstæntɪˈnəʊpəl) /
the former name (330–1926) of Istanbul
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Cultural definitions for Constantinople
[ (kon-stan-tuh-noh-puhl) ]
A city founded by the Roman emperor Constantine the Great as capital of the eastern part of the Roman Empire. Constantine ruled over both parts of the empire from Constantinople, which was later capital of the Byzantine Empire. Constantinople was conquered by Turkish forces in the fifteenth century.
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