constantinople

«constantinople» in Mova's judaism dictionary: Constantinople was the old name of the great city on the… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (Constantinople, a name of a city)

meaning for a pupil

1) (a name) Constantinople was the old name of the great city on the Bosphorus strait that is now called Istanbul, in Turkey. tree →

2) It was the capital of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire and later of the Ottoman Empire. tree →

sense in the lessons

Interpretation: It was a city where Hebrew books such as editions of Sefer Yetzirah were printed, here one printed in 1719. In the primary lessons: In history lessons Constantinople is where Europe meets Asia: the Roman emperor Constantine made it his capital and named it after himself. It was rich and strong for over a thousand years, with huge walls and the great church of Hagia Sophia. The Ottoman Turks captured it, and it became their capital; the name Istanbul became official much later. It was a key city on trade routes between east and west. Phrases: «the fall of Constantinople», «Byzantine Constantinople».

examples

• A Version, Constantinople, 17 19, 8vo. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
• Constantinople was named after the emperor Constantine. tree →
• The city of Constantinople is now called Istanbul. tree →
• Hagia Sophia was the great church of Constantinople. tree →
• Constantinople had enormous walls to keep out enemies. tree →
• The Ottoman Turks captured Constantinople with huge cannons. tree →
• Merchants from many lands traded in Constantinople. tree →
• Before it was Constantinople, the town was called Byzantium. tree →
• Maximus Planudes, a learned monk of Constantinople, made a collection of about a hundred and fifty of these fables. tree →

note

Always a capital C. Say kon-stan-ti-NOH-pul. Three names, one city: Byzantium, then Constantinople, then Istanbul. Trap: Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, but the capital of Turkey today is Ankara.

In the corpora

• Constantinople is the old name of Istanbul in Turkey.
• Istanbul was Constantinople, the Byzantine capital, which the Ottomans conquered in 1453.
• The largest cities of the 1300s, such as Constantinople, Paris or Hangzhou, had a few hundred thousand people at most.
• The Ottoman sultan Mehmed II captured Constantinople in 1453, ending the Byzantine Empire.
• Constantinople, later called Istanbul, became the Ottoman capital and controlled the straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «constantinople» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.