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It was commissioned in 936 by Abdel-Rahman III in honor of his favorite concubine Al Zahra (The Flower), and its design was so grand that detailed records indicate that building materials were brought from Constantinople and other North African locations.
Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul — down the centuries the city has been open to influences from both East and West, and this cross-fertilization of ideas has created one of the world’s liveliest, most engaging, and most hospitable cultures.
After 15 years, the Turkish commander, Hussein Pasha, was summoned back to Constantinople and publicly strangled for his failure to take the city.
Constantinople was taken by Crusader forces in 1204, and they stripped the city of manyof its finest treasures — which now grace the public buildings of Venice — although a large consignment of books and manuscripts was transferred to the monastery at Patmos before the city fell.
The city was inaugurated with great ceremony in 330 and, in honour of the emperor, was renamed Constantinople.