• Names. The name of Constantinople is an honorific eponym referencing its founder, the Roman emperor Constantine the Great.
  • 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 forms a special district (sanitary cordon) divided into three principal sections, two in Europe and one in Asia.
  • Thanks to its prime strategic position, and its formidable Theodosian walls, Constantinople was also an impregnable bastion.
  • Constantinople's 'middle street', the city's main artery and imperial processional route from the Hebdomon all the way to the Augustaion.
  • Constantinople is like an onion. ... The heart of Constantinople moved to Pera on the other side of the Golden Horn from Topkapı.
  • According to Dirk Krausmüller, “monasteries began to appear in and around Constantinople within a century of its foundation.
  • 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 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...
  • As well as preserving the manuscripts of the New Testament, Constantinople gave the world a stable currency for about 800 years (400-1200).