Sample Sentences forConstantinople (auto-selected)
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Turkey renamed Constantinople to Istanbul in 1930.Constantinople = capital of the Byzantium Empire (also known as the Eastern Roman Empire)
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In Eastern Europe we had a Greek Christian culture with Constantinople as its capital.† (source)
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They frowned on it for a few centuries and officially purged it at the Council of Constantinople in 381.† (source)
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Yes, we saw quite a lot of him; met him by chance at Constantinople.† (source)
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Tomorrow evening at seven-forty you will be in Constantinople.† (source)
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He was seized and cast into prison the very day that Safie arrived from Constantinople to join him.† (source)
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He remembered fleeing Constantinople because he had beaten their champion so quickly.† (source)
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I went to a brothel only once in my life, when I was very young, in Constantinople.† (source)
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Did Baby Igor get to Constantinople in the good submarine Justine?† (source)
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Constantinople!† (source)
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She is a slave whom I bought at Constantinople, madame, the daughter of a prince.† (source)
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In the sixth Christian century lived Procopius, a Christian magistrate of Constantinople, in the days when Justinian was Emperor and Belisarius general.† (source)
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He was from Constantinople, twelve miles away—so he had travelled, and seen the world—these very eyes had looked upon the county court-house—which was said to have a tin roof.† (source)
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The monk, overwhelmed with sorrow, went to the OEcumenical Patriarch at Constantinople and besought him to release him from his obedience.† (source)
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I glimpsed the regal Orient Express, just arrived from Constantinople, landing below us.† (source)
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We passed each other those sand-pink cities and passionate fountains, the waterfall that rocks snuffed out like a light, islands in the sea, red Pyramids, sleeping towers, checkered pavements on which strollers had come out, with shadows that seemed to steal further each time, as if the strollers had moved, and where the statues had rainbow edges; volcanoes; the Sphinx, and Constantinople; and again the Lakes, like starry fields-brought forward each time so close that it seemed to me the tracings from the beautiful face of a strange coin were being laid against my brain.† (source)
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