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the city of Byzantium was renamed to Constantinople which was renamed to Istanbul, Turkey; Constantine made it the capital of the Byzantium Empire (also known as the eastern Roman Empire) in the fourth century

Turkey renamed Constantinople to Istanbul in 1930.

Constantinople = the city of Byzantium was renamed to Constantinople which was renamed to Istanbul, Turkey; Constantine made it the capital of the eastern Roman Empire in the fourth century

Candide's Voyage to Constantinople
Voltaire -- Candide

Constantinople = The city of Byzantium was renamed this prior to being named Istanbul.

As for Erik, he went to Asia Minor and thence to Constantinople, where he entered the Sultan's employment.
Gaston Leroux -- The Phantom of the Opera
Though, after all, he added, it didn't matter; for when you'd seen Athens and Smyrna and Constantinople, what else was there?
Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
They frowned on it for a few centuries and officially purged it at the Council of Constantinople in 381.
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
Isn't it romance? most certainly they will go to Constantinople.
E.M. Forster -- A Room With A View
You can take Constantinople, you'll be robust enough to bust a whole Prussian regiment.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
I went to a brothel only once in my life, when I was very young, in Constantinople.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
He was seized and cast into prison the very day that Safie arrived from Constantinople to join him.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
I lost mine at the Goletta, and after a variety of adventures we found ourselves comrades at Constantinople.
Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote
He remembered fleeing Constantinople because he had beaten their champion so quickly.
William Goldman -- The Princess Bride
I will send you to Constantinople.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
One, he said had been told of, who had come back to Paris from Constantinople.
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
In the sixth Christian century lived Procopius, a Christian magistrate of Constantinople, in the days when Justinian was Emperor and Belisarius general.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
Oedipa looked and saw Baby Igor, disguised as a Turkish beggar lad, skulking with the dog around a set she took to be Constantinople.
Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
And then at Constantinople, and again and again.
Virginia Woolf -- Mrs. Dalloway
In A.D. 330 Constantine the Great moved the capital of the Empire from Rome to Constantinople, the city he had founded at the approach to the Black Sea.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
The doctor remembered the plague at Constantinople that, according to Procopius, caused ten thousand deaths in a single day.
Albert Camus -- The Plague
I glimpsed the regal Orient Express, just arrived from Constantinople, landing below us.
Kenneth Oppel -- Airborn
The monk, overwhelmed with sorrow, went to the OEcumenical Patriarch at Constantinople and besought him to release him from his obedience.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov

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