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• n  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

• Istanbul
• Stambul
• Stamboul
• Constantinople

Quotes

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• Le Corbusier in The Faster Times
  From our vantage point we could see the Golden Horn beyond the cascading cypresses,Le Corbusier wrote from the balcony of his hotel overlooking the city that is split by Europe and Asia. "Below, Stamboul sits above a broad band of shadow,...