Constantinople

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English

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Etymology

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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Proper noun

Constantinople

  2. (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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References

  1. ^ “Constantinople”, in Collins English Dictionary.

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Proper noun

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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Middle English

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek Κωνσταντινούπολις (Kōnstantinoúpolis).

Proper noun

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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