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From Middle English Constantinople, ultimately from Late Latin Constantinopolis, from Ancient Greek Κωνσταντινούπολις (Kōnstantinoúpolis, City of Constantine), after Roman emperor Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus (also known as Constantine I, St. Constantine, and/or Constantine the Great).

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Constantinople

  1. (historical) The former name, from 330–1930 C.E., of Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey; the former capital of the Ottoman Empire and of the Byzantine Empire before that.

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Constantinople m

  1. (historical) Constantinople (the former name, from 330–1930 C.E., of Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey; the former capital of the Ottoman Empire and of the Byzantine Empire before that)
    Synonyms: (pre-Constantine) Byzance; (Ottoman) Istamboul; (Turkey) Istanbul

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From Ancient Greek Κωνσταντινούπολις (Kōnstantinoúpolis).

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Constantinople

  1. Constantinople (the former name, from 330–1930 C.E., of Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey; the former capital of the Ottoman Empire and of the Byzantine Empire before that)
    • c. 1300, SLeg.And.(Hrl 2277) 105:
      Ac seint Andreu was..heʒe ilad iwis To þe lond of Constantinople, þer as he ʒut is.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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  • English: Constantinople