• Constantinople was a Christian city, lying in the most Christianised part of the Empire. Constantine laid out anew the square at the centre of old Byzantium...
  • Constantinople is a musical ensemble that chose the journey—geographical certainly, but also historical, cultural and inner—as its cornerstone.
  • Brubaker, Leslie. “Topography and the Creation of Public Space in Early Medieval Constantinople,” in Topographies of Power in the Early Middle Ages, ed.
  • In 395 the Roman Empire was divided into a Western and an Eastern Empire, and Constantinople became the seat of government of the Eastern Empire.
  • Interestingly, no one in Constantinople at that time would have thought of themselves as living in the Byzantine Empire.
  • The Byzantine Empire came to an end when the Ottomans breached Constantinople’s ancient land wall after besieging the city for 55 days.
  • A place of little consequence until 330 C.E., when Constantine the Great re-founded it and made it his capital (see Constantinople).
  • The Church of Constantinople is one of the fourteen or fifteen autocephalous churches, also referred to as the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
  • This category holds images pertaining to the history of Constantinople (330–1453). For images of the city until 330, see Category:Byzantium.
  • Constantinople. c. 1300, SLeg.And.(Hrl 2277) 105 : Ac seint Andreu was..heʒe ilad iwis To þe lond of Constantinople, þer as he ʒut is.