Constantinople (tur)

Constantinople

Constantinople ranks 44th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Oslo, Belgrade, and Tbilisi. Memorable people born in Constantinople include Julian, Basil II, and Honorius. Memorable people who died in Constantinople include Justinian I, Basil II, and Theodora. Constantinople has been the birth place of many politicians, and religious figures and the death place of many politicians, and religious figures. Constantinople is located in Türkiye.

Constantinople was a historical city located on the Bosporus that served as the capital of the Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman empires between its consecration in 330 and the formal abolishment of the Ottoman sultanate in 1922. Initially, as New Rome, Constantinople was founded in 324 during the reign of Constantine the Great on the site of the existing settlement of Byzantium and in 330 became the capital of the Roman Empire. Following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the late 5th century, Constantinople remained the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, the Latin Empire (1204–1261), and the Ottoman Empire (1453–1922). In the aftermath of the Turkish War of Independence, the Turkish capital moved to Ankara. Although the city had been known as Istanbul since 1453, it was officially renamed Istanbul on 28 March 1930. As of October 2025, it is the most populous city in Europe, with a population of more than 16 million residents, straddling the Bosporus Strait and lying in both Europe and Asia, and is the financial center of Turkey. Read more on Wikipedia