Istanbul
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Constantinople was the capital city of the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire, the Latin and the Ottoman Empire. It was founded in AD 330, at ancient Byzantium as the new capital of the Roman Empire by Constantine the Great, after whom it was named. In the 12th century, the city was the largest and wealthiest European city.<ref>Pounds, Norman John Greville. An Historical Geography of Europe, 1500–1840, p. 124. CUP Archive, 1979. ISBN 0-521-22379-2.</ref>
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People from Constantinople
Secular buildings and monuments
- Augustaion
- Basilica Cistern
- Baths of Zeuxippus
- Column of Marcian
- Forum of Constantine
- Great Palace of Constantinople
- Hippodrome of Constantinople
- Milion
- Palace of Lausus
- Palace of Blachernae
- Valens Aqueduct
- Walls of Constantinople
Churches, monasteries and mosques
- Atik Mustafa Pasha Mosque
- Bodrum Mosque
- Chora Church
- Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus
- Church of St. Polyeuctus
- Church of the Holy Apostles
- Eski Imaret Mosque
- Fenari Isa Mosque
- Gül Mosque
- Hagia Irene
- Hagia Sophia
- Hirami Ahmet Pasha Mosque
- Kalenderhane Mosque
- Koca Mustafa Pasha Mosque
- Nea Ekklesia
- Pammakaristos Church
- Stoudios Monastery
- Vefa Kilise Mosque
- Zeyrek Mosque
Miscellaneous
- Ahmed Bican Yazıcıoğlu
- Byzantine calendar
- Byzantine silk
- Byzantium
- Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
- Eparch of Constantinople (List of eparchs)
- Fall of Constantinople
- Golden Horn
- Istanbul
- List of people from Constantinople
- Massacre of the Latins
- Nika riots
- Notitia urbis Constantinopolitanae
- Sieges of Constantinople
- Third Rome
- University of Constantinople
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