Constantinople

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Constantinople (see other names) was a historical city located on the Bosporus, which served as the capital of the Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman empires between its consecration in 330 and the formal abolition of the Ottoman sultanate in 1922. Constantinople was founded in 324, initially as New Rome, during the reign of Constantine the Great on the site of the existing settlement of Byzantium and in 330 became the capital of the Roman Empire. Following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the late 5th century, Constantinople remained the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire (also

armed expedition against Constantinople

mosque in İstanbul, Turkey

urban waterway and the primary inlet of the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey

rebellion in the Byzantine empire

lighthouse at the southern entrance of the Bosphorus in Turkey

city walls of Constantinople (modern Istanbul, Turkey)

defunct university

Allied occupation of Constantinople after WWI

Roman aqueduct supplying Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey)

1182 massacre of Roman Catholics in Constantinople

porphyry sculpture group of four Roman emperors outside the St Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy

palace

palace

alt=|thumb|250x250px|Leo VI (right) and Basil I (left), from the 12th-century Madrid Skylitzes. The Basilika (, "the imperial [laws]") was a collection of laws completed in Constantinople by order of the Byzantine emperor Leo VI the Wise during the Macedonian dynasty. This was a continuation of the efforts of his father, Basil I, to simplify and adapt the Emperor Justinian I's Corpus Juris Civilis code of law issued between 529 and 534 which had become outdated. The term comes from the Greek adjective Basilika meaning "Imperial (laws or enactments)" and not from the Emperor Basil's name; both

1261 battle between the Latin and Nicaean Empires

ancient library

right|thumb|Reconstruction of Byzantion's Milion based on historic accounts and remaining fragments. The arched structure is approximately 14.6 m wide. thumb|200px|A fragment of the Milion has been re-erected as a pillar. thumb|Milion can be seen at the center of the plaza near the Hippodrome.

ancient place name, later known as Constantinople and then as Istanbul

thumb|270px|Selim II with the "crown of Tsarigrad", in a 1757 illustration by [[Wallachia's Constantin Săidăcar of Mogoșoaia]] Tsargrad (or Tsarigrad, Tsargorod, Czargrad or Tzargrad) is a Slavic name for the city or land of Constantinople (present-day Istanbul in Turkey), the capital of the Byzantine Empire.

runic inscriptions that are left in Hagia Sophia

ancient bath/gymnasium complex in Constantinople

thumb|The two statue groups of the Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs in [[Venice, possibly originally located at the Philadelphion]] thumb|Missing heel portion kept in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum

Byzantine building in Istanbul, Turkey

very large-calibre cannon designed by Urban, a cannon engineer, Saruca Usta and architect Muslihiddin Usta at a time when cannons were still new

desire to be latter-day Roman Empire

main road of Constantinople

In Greek mythology, Ceroessa () was a heroine of the foundational myth of Byzantium. She was the daughter of Io and Zeus; elder sister of Epaphus; and mother of Byzas, founder of Byzantium, with her uncle, Poseidon. Creusa was Keroessa's misnomer in the Etymologicum Magnum.

5th-century building in Constantinople

historical names for the city of Istanbul

Palace in Constantinople

brief history of Constantinople from 330 to 1453

7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck İstanbul in northwestern Turkey on October 14, 557

ancient Roman palace in Istanbul

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overview of architecture in Istanbul

gardens popular during the Byzantine Empire

river in Constantinople

Byzantine Greek inscription

1953 novelty song

1147 battle between the Byzantines and German crusaders

mosque in İstanbul, Turkey

Roman triumphal column in Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey)

7.3-magnitude earthquake that struck İstanbul in northwestern Turkey on January 26, 447

Temple of Constantinople

byzantine Greek text about Constantinople

The Noumeroi (, masculine plural) or Noumera ([τὰ] Nούμερα, neuter plural, from the Latin numerus, "number" in the sense of "regiment") were a Byzantine infantry garrison unit for the imperial capital, Constantinople. Their main task involved the protection of the Great Palace of Constantinople and of the Noumera, one of the city's prisons.

6.7-magnitude earthquake that struck İstanbul in northwestern Turkey on July 10, 1894

The dikaiodotes (, "giver of the laws") was a Byzantine judicial office attested in the 11th–12th centuries.