Constantinople
Istanbul's former name
Constantinople is the historical name for the city now called Istanbul, Turkey.
Founded as Byzantium, it was renamed in 330 CE when Roman emperor Constantine made it his capital.
The city served as the center of the Byzantine Empire for over a thousand years until Ottoman conquest in 1453.
The name persists in historical contexts and the famous song lyric Istanbul was Constantinople.
Of Constantinople's civilization
- emperorMale ruler of empire
- wallsVertical enclosing structures
- Silk RoadHistoric transcontinental trade network
- trade routesPaths for exchanging goods
Justinian · schism · mosaics · iconoclasm · Theodora · Greek fire · Varangian Guard · themes
Colonnaded church with apse
- domeRounded vault forming roof
- mosqueIslamic house of worship
- museumPublic exhibit space
- mosaicsPictures made from fragments
Justinian · architecture · Byzantine · Christianity · apse · nave · altar · relics
Strait linking two seas
- Grand BazaarHistoric Istanbul marketplace
- renamedGiven a new designation
- TurkeyTranscontinental Eurasian republic
- Blue MosqueIstanbul's iconic Ottoman mosque
Byzantine
Of Constantinople's civilization
- emperorMale ruler of empire
- wallsVertical enclosing structures
- Silk RoadHistoric transcontinental trade network
Justinian · trade routes · schism · mosaics · iconoclasm · Theodora · Greek fire · Varangian Guard · themes · purple
basilica
Colonnaded church with apse
Justinian · mosaics · architecture · Byzantine · Christianity · apse · nave · altar · relics · cathedral
Bosphorus
Strait linking two seas
- Grand BazaarHistoric Istanbul marketplace
- renamedGiven a new designation
- TurkeyTranscontinental Eurasian republic
fall
Descend under gravity
crusades · sack · cannons · last emperor
Peking
China's capital, old spelling
Leningrad · Saigon · Petrograd · Königsberg · Stalingrad · Batavia · Salisbury
- Medieval BattlesAgincourt, Hastings, Poitiers, Bannockburn, Orleans
- Ottoman EmpireOttoman Empire, sultans, grand vizier, Suleiman, pashas
- 600sMuhammad, Islam, Mecca, Medina, Tang Dynasty
- Ancient CapitalsBabylon, Persepolis, Thebes, Memphis, Nineveh
- Ancient PlacesBritannia, Gaul, Dacia, Hispania, Syria
- Byzantine legacyHagia Sophia, Byzantine art, Eastern Orthodoxy, Orthodox Church, iconography