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The old name of the city on the Bosphorus, where Europe and Asia meet. In 330 AD the Roman emperor Constantine the Great rebuilt the older town of and made it his capital; people called it the City of Constantine. It was the capital of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire until 1453 — more than a thousand years, not a short chapter — and then the capital of the Ottoman Empire. History books still say Constantinople when they talk about those centuries. The city is now Istanbul, in Turkey. Though actually, modern Turkey’s capital is ; Istanbul is the huge city that used to wear this older name. Names of cities stick in layers, so you will still see Constantinople in museums, churches, and old maps.
組成From Middle English Constantinople, ultimately from Late Latin Cōnstantīnopolis, from Ancient Greek Κωνσταντινούπολις (Kōnstantinoúpolis): Constantine + polis (“city”) — “City of Constantine,” after the emperor Constantine the Great.
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- Constantinenamed after the emperor Constantine the Great
- metropolisshares Greek polis, “city”
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Constantinoplename/ˌkɒn.stæn.tɪˈnəʊ.pəl/
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historicalThe former name, from 330–1930 C.E., of Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey; the former capital of the Ottoman Empire and of the Byzantine Empire before that.
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