constantinople
IPA: kɑnstæntʌnˈoʊpʌɫ
Root Word: Constantinople
noun
- Name of present-day Istanbul from 330–1930 C.E.. Previously known as Byzantium.
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Examples of "constantinople" in Sentences
- EDICT TO THE PEOPLE OF CONSTANTINOPLE.
- Sfakians and the fall of Constantinople.
- Constantinople was secure for the moment.
- Corruption and the fire of Constantinople.
- Guilleragues died of apoplexy in Constantinople in 1684.
- Constantinople by this stage was underpopulated and dilapidated.
- It brought upon him the anathema of the patriarch of Constantinople.
- Bishop of Constantinople would have preeminence after Bishop of Rome.
- The alliance with the Serbs postponed the decisive assault of Constantinople.
- His humiliating and disastrous reception at Constantinople was triply rankling.