Constantinople

[ kon-stan-tn-oh-puhl ]

noun

1. former name of Istanbul.

Constantinople

/ ˌkɒnstæntɪˈnəʊpəl /

noun

1. the former name (330–1926) of Istanbul

Constantinople

1. 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.

Notes

Today, under the name of Istanbul , Constantinople is the largest city in Turkey .

Example Sentences

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.

From Time

By the time of Theoderic’s death in 526, Romans in Constantinople had begun considering the possibility of invading Italy.

From Time

He also participated in diplomatic missions and military actions in the Holy Land, Sicily and Constantinople itself.

From Washington Post

Constantinople was the envy of the Western medieval world, a cosmopolitan center at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, Eastern Europe and Asia.

From Washington Post

From 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.

From Ozy

What good does it do a truck farmer when he knows Constantinople is the capital of Turkey?

From The Daily Beast

Next morning Alcide packed my valise, and leaving him in charge of my apartments I took the Orient express for Constantinople.

From The Daily Beast

He settled in Constantinople, where he had to start from scratch.

From The Daily Beast

Large parts even of the city of Constantinople reverted to farm land.

From The Daily Beast

Both built themselves new capitals, the Persian in Ctesiphon in Mesopotamia; the Romans in Constantinople.

From The Daily Beast

We must make more—much more—elbow room before the Turks get help from Asia or Constantinople.

From Project Gutenberg

Early in the Seventeenth Century tobacco found its way to Constantinople.

From Project Gutenberg

Barillet describes the growing of the common jasmine near Constantinople.

From Project Gutenberg

John Cantacuzenus, the historian of his own times, and a defender of the faith, inaugurated emperor of Constantinople.

From Project Gutenberg

Ten short years ago, if K.'s heart had been set on Constantinople, why, to Constantinople he would have gone.

From Project Gutenberg