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Constantinople
kon-stan-tih-NOH-puhl
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The historic name of the city now known as Istanbul, capital of the Byzantine and later Ottoman Empire.
"Constantinople fell to the Ottomans in 1453."
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Etymology
Named after Roman Emperor Constantine the Great, who refounded the city in 330 AD.