Most people know that Istanbul wasConstantinople, but many people aren't aware of the name's origin. From the Greekeis tan polin,"to the city," the name marks the city's history and importance in the Eastern Mediterranean. See also:Turkey Country Profile 14.37 6.52 16 Chongqing, China Cho...
The city was, by virtue of its location, a natural transit point between Europe and Asia Minor (Anatolia). Refounded as the “new Rome” by the emperor Constantine I in 330, it was endowed by him with the name Constantinople, the city of Constantine. The derivation from Byzantium is ...
thought to be the very one worn by Jesus at his crucifixion. Louis IX had purchased the relic from the Venetians, who held it in pawn fromBaldwin II Porphyrogenitus, the Latin emperor ofConstantinople(now Istanbul). Other holy relics, such as nails and pieces of wood from theTrue Cross,...
By this time too, a major shift in imperial power was taking place from the west to the east. The population of Rome was in decline andByzantium (or Constantinople)was on the rise. The west likely made up about 40% of the Empire's total population with the remainder in the east. By ...
焕新 知乎知学堂 等你来答 切换模式 登录/注册 卡尔·西尔兰 Quietism Ever since the fall of the Soviet union, the church of Moscow and the church of Constantinople is in constant quarrel over the leadership of the orthodox churches in all former soviet territory that could potentially be separat...
For the next 600 years the Romanian lands served as battlegrounds for their neighbours’ conflicting ambitions. The Romanians were unable to withstand the imperial pressures first from theByzantinesand then from the Ottoman Turks to the south in Constantinople (now Istanbul), or later from theHabsbu...
Nordic historiography generally begins with theVikingera. During this period the settlements of Scandinavia commanded a broad network of trade that stretched as far east asNovgorodandConstantinopleand as far west as Greenland andNorth America. The Vikings’ sturdy longshipsfacilitatedboth trade and war...
Constantinople,exacerbatedthe competition with the Sāsānian empire and resulted in the spreading of Christianity intoEgyptand Abyssinia and the encouraging of missionizing in Arabia itself. There Christians encountered Jews who had been settling since the 1st century, as well as Arabs who had ...
Constantinople(nowIstanbul), the centre of Eastern Christianity, was also the capital of the Eastern Roman, orByzantine, Empire, whileRome, after thebarbarian invasions, fell under the influence of theHoly Roman Empireof the West, a politicalrival. In the Westtheologyremained under the influence ...
The reorganization of the Roman Empire under Constantine the Great, with the adoption of a new faith, Christianity, and a new capital, Constantinople, exacerbated the competition with the Sāsānian empire and resulted in the spreading of Christianity into Egypt and Abyssinia and the encouraging of ...