Example sentences for: constantinople

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  • To the left of the high altar is a small chapel whose 10th-century Madonna di Nicopeia, a bejeweled icon also from Constantinople, is said to have healing powers and is a runner-up as Venice’s protective patron after St. Mark.

  • It was begun in the ninth century, with its massive bronze doors crafted in Constantinople and added in the 11th century, and the façade added in the 13th, when the remains of St. Andrew the Apostle were brought to its crypt from Constantinople.

  • The city was inaugurated with great ceremony in 330 and, in honour of the emperor, was renamed Constantinople.

  • As Constantinople, jewel of the Byzantine Empire, it was for more than 1,000 years the most important city in Christendom.

  • In 1920, with army support, he was elected president of the Grand National Assembly in Ankara in defiance of the Sultan’s government in Constantinople.


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