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CONSTANTINOPLE (1)
CONSTANTINOPLE (1)
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the former name of Istanbul, a seaport in northwest Turkey.
Constantinople
was founded in a.d. 330 as the
seat
of the
Byzantine Empire
(also called the
Eastern
Roman Empire
), a surviving portion of the earlier
Roman Empire
.
—
PDC
Volume 4 Approved Glossary