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Constantinople - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Constantinople occupies one of the most beautiful and advantageous sites in the world, uniting as it does Europe with Asia and putting in communication the Black Sea and all Southern Russia with the greater part of Europe and Asia, and even with distant America.
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Called in May, 381, by Emperor Theodosius, to provide for a Catholic succession in the patriarchal See of Constantinople, to confirm the Nicene Faith, to reconcile the semi-Arians with the Church, and to put an end to the Macedonian heresy ... Its first measure was to confirm St. Gregory Nazianzen as Bishop of Constantinople.
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The History of Ancient Constantinople ... 626 Persians and Avars besieging Constantinople are completely repulsed ... 673 Second siege of Constantinople. Saracens repulsed...
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Fall of Constantinople - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Constantine, the emperor of Rome from 306 to 337, founded Constantinople as the new capital of the Roman Empire. It was built on the site of the Greek city Byzantium, and it was later renamed Constantinople. It is in a very strategic location and it was developed mainly for defensive reasons.
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The Fall of Constantinople, 1453 ... Scene from the battle defending Constantinople, Paris 1499 ... When, at the age of twenty-one, Mehmed II (1451-1481) sat on the throne of the Ottoman Sultans his first thoughts turned to Constantinople.
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CONSTANTINOPLE, the capital of the Turkish empire, situated in 4 1° o' 16" N. and 28° 58' 14" E. The city stands at the southern extremity of the Bosporus, upon a hilly promontory that runs out from the European or western side of the straits towards the opposite Asiatic bank, as though to stem the rush of waters...
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