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# constantinople

«constantinople» in Mova's school dictionary: **Constantinople was the old name of the great city on the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (Constantinople, a name of a city)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (a name) Constantinople was the old name of the great city on the Bosphorus strait that is now called Istanbul, in Turkey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/constantinople/#m1)

2) It was the capital of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire and later of the Ottoman Empire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/constantinople/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons Constantinople is where Europe meets Asia: the Roman emperor Constantine made it his capital and named it after himself. It was rich and strong for over a thousand years, with huge walls and the great church of Hagia Sophia. The Ottoman Turks captured it, and it became their capital; the name Istanbul became official much later. It was a key city on trade routes between east and west. Phrases: «the fall of Constantinople», «Byzantine Constantinople».

### examples

- Constantinople was named after the emperor Constantine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/constantinople/#x1)
- The city of Constantinople is now called Istanbul. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/constantinople/#x2)
- Hagia Sophia was the great church of Constantinople. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/constantinople/#x3)
- Constantinople had enormous walls to keep out enemies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/constantinople/#x4)
- The Ottoman Turks captured Constantinople with huge cannons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/constantinople/#x5)
- Merchants from many lands traded in Constantinople. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/constantinople/#x6)
- Before it was Constantinople, the town was called Byzantium. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/constantinople/#x7)
- Maximus Planudes, a learned monk of Constantinople, made a collection of about a hundred and fifty of these fables. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/constantinople/#x8)

### note

Always a capital C. Say kon-stan-ti-NOH-pul. Three names, one city: Byzantium, then Constantinople, then Istanbul. Trap: Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, but the capital of Turkey today is Ankara.

### In the corpora

- [Constantinople is the old name of Istanbul in Turkey.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/58-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat/15/)
- [Istanbul was Constantinople, the Byzantine capital, which the Ottomans conquered in 1453.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/12-middle-east-and-central-asia/10/)
- [The largest cities of the 1300s, such as Constantinople, Paris or Hangzhou, had a few hundred thousand people at most.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/24-population-and-cities/15/)
- [The Ottoman sultan Mehmed II captured Constantinople in 1453, ending the Byzantine Empire.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/10/)
- [Constantinople, later called Istanbul, became the Ottoman capital and controlled the straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «constantinople» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/constantinople/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.