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Constantinople
the old name of istanbul was constantinople
Istanbul was once called Constantinople and before that Byzantium.
When the Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople, they renamed the city Istanbul. The city still retains that name, Istanbul, Turkey.
Ancient Greece was not something which could be destroyed as an entity. It comprised 2,000 independent city-states spread around the Mediterranean and Black Seas. These were progressively absorbed into Helleistic kingdoms and then taken over by the Roman Empire, not destroyed. You can see some of the cities in existence today - Alexandria, Athens, Syracuse, Constantinople (Istanbul) etc.
Untill 1453.
900 km
they invaided Spain,Istanbul and Greece
1136 kilometers
353 Miles
NO. Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, is the largest city in Turkey, not Greece.
Istanabul is not in Greece.
Istanbul is not part of the Greek homeland. While Istanbul has a significant historical Greek presence, it is located in modern-day Turkey, not Greece.
Istanbul lies on an isthmus between the Black and the Aegean Seas.
certainly, Greeks still live in Greece, Italy, Cyprus, aegean islands and istanbul.
i think it's turkey, but that's the country it is in. The modern mane of the city is Istanbul.
Starting in the Mediterranean Sea, one would sail around Greece to the Aegean Sea, then through the Dardenelle into the Sea of Marmara, and then through the Straits of Bosporous (passing the City of Istanbul) into the Black Sea.