• 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.
  • May 11, 330, Constantine officially transfers the capital of the Roman Empire to the city on the Bosphorus and names it New Rome, Constantinople.
  • Constantinople forms a special district (sanitary cordon) divided into three principal sections, two in Europe and one in Asia.
  • Constantinople's 'middle street', the city's main artery and imperial processional route from the Hebdomon all the way to the Augustaion.
  • 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...
  • Names. The name of Constantinople is an honorific eponym referencing its founder, the Roman emperor Constantine the Great.
  • Constantinople was the largest and wealthiest city of the Middle Ages and one of the few remnants of the once all-encompassing Roman Empire.
  • 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.
  • A new source of difficulty between Constantinople and Rome arose over the use of the title "ecumenical patriarch" by the patriarchs of Constantinople.
  • The city later became Constantinople, in honor of its Roman founder; it was renamed Istanbul by the Turks during the 20th century.