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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Tomorrow evening at seven-forty you will be in Constantinople.† (source)
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Yes, we saw quite a lot of him; met him by chance at 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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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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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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Finally, if you are willing to picture the ferment of creative art which existed in our famous ages of darkness, you must get rid of the idea that written culture came to Europe with the fall of 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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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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It is at Brussels that the most beer is consumed, at Stockholm the most brandy, at Madrid the most chocolate, at Amsterdam the most gin, at London the most wine, at Constantinople the most coffee, at Paris the most absinthe; there are all the useful notions.† (source)
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