Both Uses of
Constantinople
in
The Age of Innocence
- Though, after all, he added, it didn't matter; for when you'd seen Athens and Smyrna and Constantinople, what else was there?†
Chpt 33 *
- He was subsequently heard of in Constantinople, then in Russia; and a dozen years later American travellers were handsomely entertained by him in Buenos Ayres, where he represented a large insurance agency.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(Constantinople) capital of the Byzantium Empire (also known as the Eastern Roman Empire); Constantine renamed the city of Byzantium to Constantinople in the fourth century; in 1930 Turkey renamed it to Istanbul