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Definition: Constantinople |
ConstantinopleNoun1. The largest city and former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century; renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire; now the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Constantinople" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: ConstantinopleSynonyms: Istanbul (n), Stamboul (n), Stambul (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Constantinople (Roman name: Constantinopolis; Greek: Konstantinoupolis) is an old name of the present city of Istanbul in Turkey. Its original name was Byzantium (Greek Byzantion).
"Constantinople" is an Anglicization of "Konstantinoupolis," which means "City of Constantine" in Greek, and was given that name in reference to the Roman emperor Constantine I when he made it the capital of the Roman Empire on May 11, 330 A.D. Constantine actually named it "Nova Roma", but that name never really got into common use. Rome retained its political and commercial privileges.
Constantinople was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. It was sacked by the Fourth Crusade in 1204 and then re-captured by Nicaean forces under the command of Michael VIII Palaeologus in 1261.
Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire finally fell to the Ottoman Empire on May 29, 1453. See the Fall of Constantinople. When the Republic of Turkey was founded in 1923, the capital moved from Istanbul to Ankara. Ottoman people were calling their capital city by various names, including Constantinople. Istanbul became the official name as late as 1930.
'''See also: Golden Horn, Hagia Sophia, Hippodrome of Constantinople, the Bosporus
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Constantinople."
Crosswords: Constantinople |
| English words defined with "Constantinople": Apocrisiarius ♦ Byzantine empire, Byzantine style ♦ Catholicos ♦ Eastern Catholicism, Eastern Roman Empire, Eudoxian ♦ Fourth Crusade ♦ Horse-chestnut ♦ Istanbul ♦ Nestorian ♦ Protonotary ♦ Stamboul, Stambul ♦ To strike in ♦ Varangian. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Constantinople": Bellisant, Byzantine/Rhodian Sea-Law ♦ Councils ♦ Ferragus ♦ Golden Horn, Greens of Constantinople, Guerino Meschino ♦ Immortals, INFIDEL ♦ Jonathan and David ♦ Lower Empire ♦ Macedonians ♦ Nestorians ♦ Olympian Jove, Orson ♦ Pacolet ♦ Quantas Empire Airways Ltd ♦ Seven Wonders of the World, Sophia, Standards, Stylites, Sublime Porte ♦ Venus of Cnidus. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Constantinople": Byzantine. (references) |
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Screenplays | Do you remember the man who walked into the Bank of Constantinople, and walked out with the Bank of Constantinople? (Trouble in Paradise; writing credit: Aladar Laszlo; Grover Jones) | |
Lyrics | Istanbul was Constantinople (Istanbul (Not Constantinople); performing artist: They Might Be Giants) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Mutt and Jeff In Constantinople (1913) The War News in Constantinople (1912) Massacre at Constantinople (1901) | |
Song Titles | Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (performing artist: They Might Be Giants) | |
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 | Off Constantinople, Turkey, circa September-October 1919. The bow of a British battleship is visible at the extreme right. Photographed by R.E. Wayne. Credit: NAVY. |  | At Constantinople, Turkey, probably in 1919. The Greek torpedo boat Dafni (completed 1913) is alongside. Lemnos was the former USS Idaho (Battleship # 24). Credit: NAVY. |
 | Turk leaving Lausanne Conference with Constantinople and membership in the League of Nations. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Constantinople crowds gathered at the Mosque of Faith while Sheikh Ul Islam proclaims the declaration of war against the allies. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Photo-panoramic view of Constantinople. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Panorama de Constantinople, pris de La Tour de Galata. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Germany consents, in so far as she is concerned, to the transfer to His Britannic Majesty's Government of the powers conferred on His Imperial Majesty the Sultan by the Convention signed at Constantinople on October 29, 1888, relating to the free navigation of the Suez Canal. (reference) |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | INFIDEL, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does. (See GIAOUR.) A kind of scoundrel imperfectly reverent of, and niggardly contributory to, divines, ecclesiastics, popes, parsons, canons, monks, mollahs, voodoos, presbyters, hierophants, prelates, obeah-men, abbes, nuns, missionaries, exhorters, deacons, friars, hadjis, high-priests, muezzins, brahmins, medicine-men, confessors, eminences, elders, primates, prebendaries, pilgrims, prophets, imaums, beneficiaries, clerks, vicars-choral, archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, preachers, padres, abbotesses, caloyers, palmers, curates, patriarchs, bonezs, santons, beadsmen, canonesses, residentiaries, diocesans, deans, subdeans, rural deans, abdals, charm-sellers, archdeacons, hierarchs, class-leaders, incumbents, capitulars, sheiks, talapoins, postulants, scribes, gooroos, precentors, beadles, fakeers, sextons, reverences, revivalists, cenobites, perpetual curates, chaplains, mudjoes, readers, novices, vicars, pastors, rabbis, ulemas, lamas, sacristans, vergers, dervises, lectors, church wardens, cardinals, prioresses, suffragans, acolytes, rectors, cures, sophis, mutifs and pumpums. |
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| "Constantinople" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 85.90% of the time. "Constantinople" is used about 78 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 85.9% | 67 | 40,952 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.13% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.13% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.85% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 78 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Constantinople": Constantinople nut. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Constantinople"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tyrkisk hasselnød (Constantinople nut, Mediterranean hazel, Turkish hazel), traenoed (Constantinople nut, Mediterranean hazel, Turkish hazel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Turkse hazelaar (Constantinople nut, Mediterranean hazel, Turkish hazel), hazelnoot van de Levant (Constantinople nut, Mediterranean hazel, Turkish hazel), boomhazelaar (Constantinople nut, Mediterranean hazel, Turkish hazel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | turkinpähkinä (Constantinople nut, Mediterranean hazel, Turkish hazel, turkish hazel-nut). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | noisette du Levant (Constantinople nut), noisetier de Byzance (Constantinople nut). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | konstantinopel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κωνσταντινούπολη. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | konstantinápoly (Istanbul). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | nocciolo mediterraneo (Constantinople nut, Mediterranean hazel, Turkish hazel), nocciola del Levante (Constantinople nut, Mediterranean hazel, Turkish hazel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onstantinoplecay avelã-do-levante (Constantinople nut, Mediterranean hazel, Turkish hazel). (various references) konstantinopolj. (various references) avellano mediterráneo (Constantinople nut, Mediterranean hazel, Turkish hazel), avellana de Turquía (Constantinople nut, Mediterranean hazel, Turkish hazel), avellana de avellana de Turquía (Constantinople nut, Mediterranean hazel, Turkish hazel). (various references) turkisk hassel (Constantinople nut, Mediterranean hazel, Turkish hazel). (various references) Caergystennin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Corylus colurna. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Constantinople" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Constantinope, Costantinopoli. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-n-n-n-o-o-p-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: continentals. | |
-3 letters: antileptons, contentions, continental. | |
-4 letters: antilepton, constipate, contention, continents, inconstant, neoplastic, nonactions, nonelastic, nonplastic, pentatonic, pleonastic, postcoital, potentials, stenotopic. | |
-5 letters: antipoles, apostolic, cannelons, cloisonne, coastline, conations, conepatls, consonant, continent, cotenants, innocents, intonates, isooctane, locations, napoleons, nilpotent, nonaction, noncoital, noninsect, nonpoetic, nonpolice, nonsaline, nonsocial, notations, optionals, panettoni, patooties, pentanols, pinnacles, pittances, polonaise, potations, potential. | |
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