• Constantinople forms a special district (sanitary cordon) divided into three principal sections, two in Europe and one in Asia.
  • After Valens's embarrassing defeat, the Visigoths believed Constantinople to be vulnerable and attempted to scale the walls of the city but ultimately failed.
  • Names. The name of Constantinople is an honorific eponym referencing its founder, the Roman emperor Constantine the Great.
  • According to Dirk Krausmüller, “monasteries began to appear in and around Constantinople within a century of its foundation.
  • 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...
  • Constantinople's 'middle street', the city's main artery and imperial processional route from the Hebdomon all the way to the Augustaion.
  • Next (Constantinople, Fall of). Constantinople (Greek: Κωνσταντινούπολη) was the capital of the Byzantine Empire and, following its fall in 1453...
  • Constantinople was the largest and wealthiest city of the Middle Ages and one of the few remnants of the once all-encompassing Roman Empire.
  • Constantinople was the capital city of the Byzantine (330–1204 and 1261–1453) and also of the brief Latin (1204–1261) and the later Ottoman (1453–1923) empires.