- Names. The name of Constantinople is an honorific eponym referencing its founder, the Roman emperor Constantine the Great.
- May 11, 330, Constantine officially transfers the capital of the Roman Empire to the city on the Bosphorus and names it New Rome, Constantinople.
- all the leaves are off of the oak and all of the sheep have followed the spoken word. i'm coming constantinople here i come.
- Constantinople is an ancient city in modern-day Turkey that’s now known as Istanbul. First settled in the seventh century B.C., Constantinople developed into a...
- Europe continued to mourn the loss of Constantinople, yet Europeans had not been consistent friends of the city they claimed to hold in such high esteem.
- Constantinople forms a special district (sanitary cordon) divided into three principal sections, two in Europe and one in Asia.
- Yet initially Constantinople did not have all the dignities of Rome, possessing a proconsul, rather than a prefect of the city.
- Constantinople was the largest and wealthiest city of the Middle Ages and one of the few remnants of the once all-encompassing Roman Empire.
- In this article, I will tell a story that starts from 330, when Constantine founded the city, and continues until 1453, when Constantinople fell.
- A new source of difficulty between Constantinople and Rome arose over the use of the title "ecumenical patriarch" by the patriarchs of Constantinople.