Constantinople
//ˌkɒn.stæn.tɪˈnəʊ.pəl// name
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 the second ecumenical council in 381 which added wording about the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed wordnet
- 2 the fifth ecumenical council in 553 which held Origen's writings to be heretic wordnet
- 3 the sixth ecumenical council in 680-681 which condemned Monothelitism by defining two wills in Christ, divine and human wordnet
- 4 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 wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 The former name, from 330–1930 C.E., of Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey; the former capital of the Ottoman Empire and of the Byzantine Empire before that. historical
Example
More examples"It took us six years to conquer Constantinople."
Etymology
From Middle English Constantinople, ultimately from Late Latin Constantinopolis, from Ancient Greek Κωνσταντινούπολις (Kōnstantinoúpolis, “City of Constantine”), after Roman emperor Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus (also known as Constantine I, St. Constantine, and/or Constantine the Great).
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