Constantinoplein a sentence
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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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I glimpsed the regal Orient Express, just arrived from Constantinople, landing below us.† (source)
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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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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)Constantinople = capital of the Byzantium Empire (also known as the Eastern Roman Empire)
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I return again to the empty reading room, my head spinning as I turn on my heels, a blur of the books' leather bindings floor to ceiling, the stained-glass lamp I bought in Venice, the carpet from Constantinople-all these and more I would trade in a beat of the heart for even a sign that my child has been spared, never mind what I would surrender for the child herself-this mother's life in an instant!† (source)
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Constantinople!† (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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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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The doctor remembered the plague at Constantinople that, according to Procopius, caused ten thousand deaths in a single day.† (source)
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There was something, of course, that people wanted; for when Minta took her hand and held it, Nancy, reluctantly, saw the whole world spread out beneath her, as if it were Constantinople seen through a mist, and then, however heavy-eyed one might be, one must needs ask, "Is that Santa Sofia?"† (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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You can take Constantinople, you'll be robust enough to bust a whole Prussian regiment.† (source)
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