- 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.
- As well as preserving the manuscripts of the New Testament, Constantinople gave the world a stable currency for about 800 years (400-1200).
- 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 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 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.
- 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 forms a special district (sanitary cordon) divided into three principal sections, two in Europe and one in Asia.
- Recently I have travelled, and this time I had the chance to go to Constantinople (Istanbul), once the center of the Byzantine world itself!