The largest city and former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century; renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire; now the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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The council in 869 that condemned Photius who had become the patriarch of Constantinople without approval from the Vatican, thereby precipitating the schism between the eastern and western churches.
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1 Shahristani was speaking at a presentation to international energy companies in Istanbul .
2 The company would also have another hotel investment at Istanbul 's new airport.
3 Jeremy Bowen reports from Istanbul on the challenge to the Turkish leadership.
4 The two were later brought to Istanbul for legal procedures, it said.
5 Other research trips have taken him to China, Istanbul , Algeria, and Malta.
1 Not a man in all Stambul would care to look at you.
2 What a noise, what a commotion in the streets of Stambul !
3 The host is coming to Stambul ! - that was a word of terror.
4 Far to the west are seen the towers on the old wall of Stambul .
5 As a child Fatima Hanum played in one of the narrow streets of Stambul .
1 The truly gifted flourish only in the by-ways of Pera and Stamboul .
2 Just before she left Constantinople she saw him in Stamboul by chance.
3 All hail the new viceroy sent us by our master in Stamboul !
4 Come for me at ten, will you, and we'll drive to Stamboul .
5 Nobody here doubts that we are in full favor at Stamboul .
The sixth ecumenical council in 680-681 which condemned Monothelitism by defining two wills in Christ, divine and human.
The fifth ecumenical council in 553 which held Origen's writings to be heretic.
Other meanings for "Constantinople" 1 After a debate on the matter in Constantinople , Justinian consulted the pope.
2 Russian steamer to Baku; rail to Batoum; steamer to Constantinople and India.
3 He died in Constantinople in 1205 and was buried in S. Sofia.
4 The loss of Constantinople ratcheted up the religious content of Christian rhetoric.
5 The women have won the unbounded admiration of the British in Constantinople .
6 Hosein served with honor against the Christians in the siege of Constantinople .
7 I would have come home to Constantinople , no matter what the risks.
8 The Constantinople route is the most natural and least controversial of these.
9 He lived in the time of the schism of Acacius of Constantinople .
10 The feathered game shooting is very good in the neighbourhood of Constantinople .
11 Oct. 27-Germansjoin Bulgarians in northeastern Serbia and open way to Constantinople .
12 Throughout the Middle Ages Constantinople remained the most important city in Europe.
13 The patriarch of Constantinople is the spiritual head of the Greek Church.
14 Soon the existence of an organised Slavic State became known in Constantinople .
15 You birds'll be in New York or Constantinople or some place else.
16 March 11-Thereis a panic in Constantinople and many foreigners are leaving.
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