Costantinople

Old French

Proper noun

Costantinople

1. Constantinople (the ancient capital of the Byzantine Empire, in modern Turkey; modern Istanbul)
   • ca. 1210, Villehardouin, La Conquête de Constantinople, 1961 ed., Paris: Les Belles Lettres, chap. VII, par. 207

     Ensi s'en rentra l'empereres en Costantinople el palais de Blaquerne.

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