Both Uses of
Constantinople
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- He was seized and cast into prison the very day that Safie arrived from Constantinople to join him.†
p. 125.6 *Constantinople = capital of the Byzantium Empire (also known as the Eastern Roman Empire)
- A few days after, the Turk entered his daughter's apartment and told her hastily that he had reason to believe that his residence at Leghorn had been divulged and that he should speedily be delivered up to the French government; he had consequently hired a vessel to convey him to Constantinople, for which city he should sail in a few hours.†
p. 129.3
Definition:
capital of the Byzantium Empire (also known as the Eastern Roman Empire); Constantine renamed the city of Byzantium to Constantinople in the fourth century; in 1930 Turkey renamed it to Istanbul