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When Istanbul was Constantinople...YIGAL SCHLEIFER, JTA
Why It Is Istanbul, Not Constantinople A first it was called “New Rome” but then changed to Constantinople meaning “City of Constantine.” In1453 the Ottomans (now known as Turks)captured the city and renamed it İslambol (“the city of Islam). The name İstanbul was in use from ...
a date most often mentioned by historians.1That date was when Odoacer, the Germanic king of the Torcilingi, deposed Romulus Augustulus, the last Roman emperor to rule the western part of the Roman Empire. The eastern half became the Byzantine Empire, with its capitalConstantinople(modern Istan...
When was the first bridge built in Istanbul? The first recorded bridge over the Golden Horn in Istanbul was built during the reign of Justinian the Great inthe 6th century, close to the area near the Theodosian Land Walls at the western end of the city. ...
‘When the living envied the dead’: Church Slavonic Paratexts | 209Isaija’s account has gained attention in the Balkans since it is the oldest known source depicting the Battle of Maritsa in 1371 – the biggest military success of the Ottomans in Europe before the fall of Constantinople in...
13 In 1054,the Christian church in Constantinople refused to accept the supremacy of the Roman Pope and was thus excommunicated by the latter.Christianity was initially divided into two parts:the one in Rome called the Roman Catholic Church and the one in Constantinople call...
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