Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Constantinople: (historical) The former name, from 330–1930 C.E., of Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey; the former capital of the Ottoman Empire and of the Byzantine Empire before that
About 541 he removed to Constantinopolis, where he received every mark of imperial favour both from Justinianus and Justinus the Second.
1938, H. P. Lovecraft, “Ibid”, in The O-Wash-Ta-Nong: An Amateur Journal, volume 3, number 1, page 113 more examples
Thus the Roman emperor Severus had destroyed the Hellenistic city; as to the emperor Constantine, he tore down pagan monuments to rebuild Byzantium as Constantinopolis, the capital of a Christian empire.
1999, Suraiya Faroqhi, Approaching Ottoman History: An Introduction to the Sources, page 124Like the monuments culled from the cities and sanctuaries of the Roman world, the relics of Constantinopolis created a history for the city both through individual identity and their status as appropriated objects.
2014, Sarah Bassett, “Collecting and the Creation of History”, in Museum Archetypes and Collecting in the Ancient World, page 154Nonetheless, in the fourth century, Roma began to appear in a new guise, in a whole series of official images from coins to consular diptychs, more or less twinned with her upstart “sister”, Constantinopolis.
2015, Lucy Grig, “Competing Capitals”, in Two Romes: Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity, page 43
Origin
- Ancient GreekΚωνστᾰντῑνούπολῐς
- LatinCōnstantīnopolis
- Middle EnglishConstantinopolis
- EnglishConstantinopolis
From Middle English Constantinopolis, from Latin Cōnstantīnopolis, from Ancient Greek Κωνστᾰντῑνούπολῐς (Kōnstăntīnoúpolĭs).
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