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Constantinople

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Map of Constantinople.

Constantinople was the capital of the Byzantine Empire. Its name comes from the emperor Constantine I who ordered its construction on the site of Byzantium, a Greek city.

When the Ottomans seized Constantinople in 1453, they renamed it "Istanbul".

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