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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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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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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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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The doctor remembered the plague at Constantinople that, according to Procopius, caused ten thousand deaths in a single day.† (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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