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| − | '''Constantinople''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]:Κωνσταντινούπολις) is the former name of the city of [[Istanbul]], which over the course of 1600 years served as the capital of four major empires: The [[Roman Empire]] (330-395), the [[Byzantine Empire]] as the surviving offshoot of the old Roman Empire (395-1204 and 1261-1453), the [[Latin Empire]] (1204-1261), and the [[Ottoman Empire]] (1453-1922). Formerly the city of [[Byzantium]], [[Constantine]] renamed it as Constantinople in A.D. 330. It was designed to be the [[Rome]] of the East (''Nova Roma'', or "New Rome"). It was conquered by the [[Ottoman]] [[Sultan]] [[Mahmud II]] in 1453 after being defended by [[Constantine XI]], the last of the Byzantine Emperors, and his small army. It served as the capital of the [[Ottoman Empire]] until the Empire was broken apart by the [[World War I|First World War]].
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| − | Today the city is named [[Istanbul]], and is located in modern-day [[Turkey (Nation)|Turkey]], the remnant of the Ottoman Empire.
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