How To Use Constantinople In A Sentence
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In 1867 another visitor, Mark Twain, called Jerusalem “the knobbiest town in the world, except Constantinople.”
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
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Church of Constantinople was still strong, as is shown by the great work of S. Theodore of the S.udium, famous as a hymn-writer, a liturgiologist, and a defender of the faith.
The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003
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In the beginning of the ninth century St. Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople, states that all are obliged to observe xerophagy during those seasons
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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Rome lay too far from the vulnerable frontiers; Constantinople occupied a position about equidistant from the Germans on the lower Danube and the Persians on the Euphrates.
Early European History
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Constantinople, and several of their friends empaled.
Candide
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Having again experienced, in November 2006, the joy and emotion of the personal and blessed participation of Your Holiness in the patronal feast of Constantinople, the commemoration of the St. Andrew the Apostle, the First Called, I set out "with a joyous step" from Fener in the New Rome, to come to you to participate in your joy in the patronal feast of Old Rome.
Archive 2008-06-29
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Constantinople, where I lived gaily, and spent my money; but I found that to mix in the world, it is necessary not only to have an attaghan, but also to have the courage to use it; and in several broils which took place, from my too frequent use of the water of the Giaour, I invariably proved that, although my voice was that of a lion, my heart was but as water, and the finger of contempt was but too often pointed at the beard of pretence.
The Pacha of Many Tales
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The first firman made its way slowly from Constantinople to Athens, but events had overtaken it by the time it arrived.
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And the Byzantine coins imply some connection with Constantinople.
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He explains that once he recovered from the injury, he was captured by Spaniards, thrown in jail and then sent to Constantinople to be the almoner to the French Ambassador.
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The Normans; or rather the private adventurers of that warlike people, who founded a powerful kingdom in Apulia and Sicily, shook the throne of Constantinople, displayed the trophies of chivalry, and almost realized the wonders of romance.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Rome was already competing with Constantinople as imperial capital of the Christian world.
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Roumelia, that is, the country round Constantinople, as far as the
Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity
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If any one at present was to announce in Constantinople that he was favored by the angel Raphael, who is superior to Gabriel in dignity, and that he alone was to be believed, he would be publicly empaled.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Turkey; he did not claim any territory south of the Balkan, nor any part of Roumelia -- not even Adrianople -- only Constantinople with its neighborhood.
Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia
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In 1204, the Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople and huge amounts of artistic treasures were taken to the West in the form of plunder, to fill cathedral treasuries and decorate cities across western Europe.
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Robert was succeeded by his sons Roger and William, to whose dominion not only was Naples added, but all the places interjacent as far as Rome, and afterward Sicily, of which Roger became sovereign; but, upon William going to Constantinople, to marry the daughter of the emperor, his dominions were wrested from him by his brother Roger.
The History of Florence
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I felt a bit like a Circassian slave being taken to Constantinople.
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The office is found not only in all Greek Churches subject to Constantinople, but also in the Russian, Bulgarian, and other so-called autocephalous
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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But if it wasn't unheard of for a ruler of Constantinople to die peacefully in his bed, it was also not the norm.
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And the Byzantine coins imply some connection with Constantinople.
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In 1204 the Crusaders and Venetians attacked Constantinople and sacked the city.
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Now he possessed the power over southeast Europe, with the exception of Constantinople, which still remained unconquered.
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Justinian at Constantinople; an anti-Handelist was looked upon as an anti-courtier, and voting against the Court in Parliament was hardly a less remissible or more venial sin than speaking against Handel or going to the Lincoln's Inn Fields Opera.
A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)
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Constantinople had given him a taste for Anacreontic singing, and female society of the questionable kind, a love of strong waters, — the hypocrite looked positively scandalised when I first suggested the subject, — and an off-hand latitudinarian mode of dealing with serious subjects in general.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
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He was to command the First Army Corps in Constantinople, but diplomatic protests from
Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
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+ The Great Church, that is, the patriarchate of Constantinople that takes precedence of the others.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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Although the church is closer theologically to Constantinople than to Rome, its rite includes Latin as well as Byzantine elements.
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At one time Ani had a population of over 100,000, rivalling Baghdad and Constantinople.
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Constantinople's patronage of the metropolitanate of Kiev for example for the first 500 years of its existence was based on the fact that Grand Duke Vladimir specifically requested baptism for his people by Byzantine bishops and clergy.
Orrologion
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I mean, _I_ like to read him, and fantasize about Russia launching a crusade to liberate Constantinople from the Turks, but I doubt that most of the hipsters would enjoy reading him.
Matthew Yglesias » Against Craziness
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I brought with me from Constantinople (being by the marchants aduised so to doe) pleasant fruits, muscadel wine, and delicate bisket bread to present vnto the gouernours of Soldaia, to the end I might obtain free passage: because they looke fauorablie vpon no man which commeth with an emptie hand.
The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.
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Events, however, were precipitated in such a way that, without waiting for the opening of hostilities, the Turkish general in command of the fortress of Belgrade turned his guns on the city; this provoked the intervention of the powers at Constantinople, and the entire civilian Turkish population had to quit the country (in accordance with the stipulations of 1830), only Turkish garrisons remaining in the fortresses of [) S] abac, Belgrade,
The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey
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As soon as he came to Constantinople Theodosius began expelling the Arians, who had hitherto been in possession.
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The trade went in both directions: there was already a surplus of cordage and sailcloth that was traded on to Constantinople while there was a booming import-export business to Riga.
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There are some few instances indeed wherein the subordinate accent is differently arranged, as parisyllabic, Constantinople.
Miscellany
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Because the Lausos collection may well have continued this tradition, the question inevitably arises as to whether the images displayed in Constantinople were originals or copies.
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Mass arrests, burlesquing, tortures, imprisonments and executions of Gentile Hellenes in Athens, Antioch, Palmyra and Constantinople.
The Church-State Alliance and the future of humanity
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But here, in the course of their circuit round Constantinople, the officer and his soldier came to a very small wicket or sallyport, opening on the interior of a large and massive advanced work, which terminated an entrance to the city itself.
Count Robert of Paris
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A guide along the Danube: From Vienna to Constantinople, Smyrna, Athens, the Morea, the Ionian Islands, and Venice: from the notes of a journey made in the year 1836 by R.
OpEdNews - Diary: The progressive route to compromise
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In 381, the Council of Constantinople reaffirmed the credo of Nicaea and condemned the semi-Arians, the homoiousians.
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Beginning with the World Student Christian Federation Convention in Constantinople in 1911, the YMCA was interested in expanding its services to the Orthodox nations of Eastern Europe.
Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
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For a time the patriarch refused to take the matter so seriously; eventually, since the quarrel became more and more bitter, in 1341 the first synod of the Hesychast question was summoned at Constantinople.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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The winter season suspended his progress: with the return of spring he again aspired to the conquest of Constantinople; but, instead of traversing the hills of Epirus, he turned his arms against Greece and the islands, where the spoils would repay the labor, and where the land and sea forces might pursue their joint operations with vigor and effect.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Both these treaties are shown on the base of the obelisk of Theodosius, erected in the hippodrome at Constantinople in 390, as triumphs of Roman arms.
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Constantinople, spied from the road — first under the blazing midday sun, then by "beautiful Oriental moonlight" on the return trip — views "so sublime and picturesque ... that in an enchanted dream alone one could hope to realize the effect of the mirage
Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
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The most powerful church leaders were the bishop of Rome, called the pope, in the West and the patriarch of Constantinople in the East.
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A European conference was summoned at Constantinople, but its decisions were rejected by the Turks, as were subsequent proposals by the powers.
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In the fourteenth century a pseudo-spiritualism akin to that of the ancient Euchites or Messalians, culminating in the famous Hesychast controversies (see HESYCHASM; PALAMAS), greatly disturbed the mutual harmony of Greek monasteries, especially those of Mount Athos, one of whose monks, Callistus, had become Patriarch of Constantinople
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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Under the Venetian domination the schismatics were dependent on a protopapas who in turn depended on the Patriachate of Constantinople.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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Cairo, which the aga had in a bag, to be presented to the grand signior at Constantinople.
Travels through France and Italy
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[from the section on Constaninople] Constantinople, called bythe Turks Stamboul or Istamboul, was originally called Byzantium ....
"Milan," "Rome," and "Constantinople" ; excerpts from Appleton's European Guide Book for English-Speaking Travellers, Part II
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The film traces the palimpsest from Constantinople to a Greek Orthodox monastery in the Judaean desert to the library of the Greek Patriarch in Jerusalem.
Television: Archimedes' Disgusting Document
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In the ninth century, Orthodox missions from Constantinople converted the Bulgars, Serbs and Slavs, tribes who had invaded and settled the Balkan provinces some 200 years before.
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As these were largely independent, that Constantinople survived at all was largely because its enemies were as suspicious of each other as they were eager to recapture the Byzantine capitol.
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Constantinople, whither the tidings preceded them that King Afridun had prevailed over the Moslems; so quoth the ancient dame, Zat al-Dawahi, “I know that my son Hardub, King of Roum, is no runagate and that he feareth not the Islamitic hosts, but will restore the whole world to the Nazarene faith.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Invading hordes assailed the Western Empire for centuries, Constantinople fell to Islamic forces in 1492, then came the Sultans, the Ottomans and finally Communism.
Echoes of a Distant Thunder
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Given huge portions of Asia Minor by the Treaty of Sevres, the Greeks made a terrible miscalculation, thinking they could recapture more territory and even Constantinople.
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Constantinople was known in the West to contain great depositories of ancient Greek literature and a few scholars familiar with it.
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Only then, at the very end of the 5th century, did the Bishop of Rome have a king who might be called upon to defend the faith, for the Arians were all heretics in the eyes of Rome (and of Constantinople, for that matter).
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-- OED ochlophobic ephemera: ABC & EP on abortion, seminaries, the thoughts of the dead, usual ochlophobic topics ... this opinion piece by ABC Williams does not articulate what I would consider by any means a sufficiently strong and clear stand against abortion, it strikes me as closer to a pro-life position than anything I have heard from the Ecumenical Patriarch on the issue, and strikes me as a more coherent position than the one articulated by +Bartholomew which was noted in Nearly identical in tone and spirit [to a statement made by an Armenian bishop], and lack of any clear, prophetic teaching are statements made by His Holiness, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople when he visited San Francisco in 1990 as the metropolitan of Chalcedon as part of the entourage of the then Patriarch Dimitrios of blessed memory.
The Ochlophobist
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This is, as far as I can see, basic Tome of Leo and Third Constantinople; and what Kvanvig keeps calling the traditional view seems very clearly run aground in the same way Monotheletism did - the natures are distinguished but only in order to be confused.
Of Interest
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So King Afridun, Lord of Constantinople, met them on the sea shore, and they told him all that had befallen them from the Moslem, and they wept sore and groaned and moaned; and rejoicing at weal was turned into dismay for unheal; and they informed him concerning Luka son of Shamlut, how calamity had betided him and how Death had shot him with his shaft.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Saracens; fourthly and fifthly, the Ottoman Turks and Venetians; sixthly, the Latin princes of Constantinople -- not to speak seventhly and eighthly of Albanian or Egyptian Ali Pashas, or ninthly, of Joseph Humes and Greek loans, is now, viz., in March, 1844, alive and kicking.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
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Rome tried in the third century to control its increasingly unwieldy and threatened empire by instituting a dynarchy with Constantinople, then later formed a tetrarchy with four farflung capitals, all on the fringe of the barbaric hordes.
Archive 2006-03-01
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The mandylion stayed in Edessa as a means of protection for the city from harm until forcibly taken to [[Constantinople]] in 944, where it was received with great fanfare by Emperor Romanus I.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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The Palaeologi reigned in ghostly supremacy over the shreds and tatters of Byzantium until the Turks seized Constantinople in 1453.
Superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism
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Peace with the Turks, comprehending under this term Constantinople, Tunis, Tripoli, Algiers and Morocco, is essential to our navigation and commerce and political consideration in Europe.
Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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In the Ottoman Empire the muftis were state officials, and the mufti of Constantinople was the highest of these.
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The most powerful church leaders were the bishop of Rome, called the pope, in the West and the patriarch of Constantinople in the East.
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Near a Western fire-place was a Turkish mangal, like one which she had seen me light to warm bath-waters in Constantinople, and when I pointed to it, she ran to the kitchen, returned with some chopped wood, and very cleverly lit it.
The Purple Cloud
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Alaric had faithfully asserted the just pretensions of the republic to the provinces which were usurped by the Greeks of Constantinople: he modestly required the fair and stipulated recompense of his services; and if he had desisted from the prosecution of his enterprise, he had obeyed, in his retreat, the peremptory, though private, letters of the emperor himself.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Balakian was one of some 250 Armenian intellectuals and leaders arrested by government order in Constantinople on April 24, 1915, the event commonly viewed as the beginning of the campaign against Armenians in Turkey.
A Progressive on the Prairie » Book Review: Armenian Golgotha by Grigoris Balakian » Print
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Is it not agreeable, when you are preparing a discard, at the decisive moment, with one hundred at piquet, which gives you 'quinte' or 'quatorze', to deliver unhappy Poland; and when one has the satisfaction to score a king and take every trick, what does it cost to let the Russians enter Constantinople?
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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At Delhi, the gates of the city walls are called ostentatiously after distant places -- the _Kashmîr_, the _Kâbul_, the _Constantinople_ gates.
Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
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One of his steles, which is now in the Imperial Ottoman Museum at Constantinople, depicts him as a fully bearded man with Semitic characteristics.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
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Much of Kyushu had been Catholicized and Nagasaki was as Christian a city as 5th century Constantinople.
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Justin I in Constantinople was an orthodox Christian whereas Theodoric was an Arian.
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The distinctive feature of the Russian tsardom was that, after the fall of Constantinople, it was the only remaining independent Orthodox Christian principality.
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The Orthodox rejoiced; the new patriarchate was admitted everywhere as fifth, after Jerusalem, leaving the first place to Constantinople; they explained that now the sacred pentarchy, the (not really very) ancient order of five patriarchs, was restored; Moscow had arisen to atone for the fall of Rome.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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He knew that Mrs. Clarke's husband was accredited to the British Embassy at Constantinople; that the scandal about her was connected with that city and with its neighborhood -- Therapia, Prinkipo, and other near places, that both the co-respondents named in the suit lived there.
In the Wilderness
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Though Constantinople be heaped above him as a tomb, yet I must find him -- then cover us with the city's weight, with a mountain piled above -- I care not, so that one grave hold Raymond and his Perdita.
II.3
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The army took the traditional overland route down the Danube River and across the Balkans to Constantinople.
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Turks in Constantinople and Smyrna succeeded in inoculating patients against smallpox, he led a public campaign to do the same in Boston (a campaign for which he was much vilified by those who called inoculation the "work of the Devil," merely because of its Islamic origin).
Boston Globe -- Ideas section
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European ladies who may actually have penetrated into a harem, perhaps in Constantinople or in Cairo, are still unacquainted with the real harem; they have only known its outer semblance in the rooms kept for show, rooms where European finery is partially aped.
Memoirs of an Arabian Princess
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His confessors told him that he would die in a state of sin because of his treatment of his ex-Queen, who was now living in Constantinople.
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Constantinople, now Istanbul, is probably rivalled only by Rome as the central hub shaping European and world history since civilisation began.
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It gives a precious glimpse of Constantinople 's most famous image of the Virgin Mary painted it was believed from the life by Saint Luke himself.
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In its last years as Ottoman capital, Constantinople, more than ever, became a world city.
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After these came the unfortunate Nicephorus; his looks were those of a man half-dead from the terror of immediate dissolution, and what he possessed of remaining attention, was turned successively to two black-stoled monks, who were anxiously repeating religious passages to him alternately from the Greek scripture, and the form of devotion adopted by the court of Constantinople.
Count Robert of Paris
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At this time, there was a serious diplomatic difficulty pending between the Czar (Nicholas I), and the Sultan (Abdul-Medjid), and in less than a month after my return to Constantinople, there was an open rupture between the cabinet at St. Petersburg, and the Sublime Porte, and preparations for active hostilities between the two powers were immediately commenced.
The Autobiography of Nicholas Said; a Native of Bornou, Eastern Soudan, Central Africa
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In 1796 he entered the Austrian diplomatic service as secretary in the ministry of foreign affairs, was appointed interpreter to the internuncio at Constantinople in 1799 and was sent from there to
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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Each tagma was stationed in a particular area near Constantinople itself; they were highly trained, highly paid, and in return they were expected to accompany the emperor or his general on any foreign campaign.
Superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism
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Balakian, a vartabed (a celibate priest) and scholar, was one of 250 intellectuals, writers, teachers, politicians, and prominent Armenians arrested in Constantinople that night, during the early stages of the Armenian Genocide.
VQR
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Junilius and Paul of Nisibis in Constantinople (513) held it as mediæ auctoritatis.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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In his life, Harald travelled from Norway and Sweden, all the way to Russia, south to Constantinople, where he was both commander of the elite Varangian guards and thrown into prison.
The Last Viking Warrior | Heretical Ideas Magazine
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Thus at the first Council of Constantinople, AD 448, 23 archimandrites or abbots sign, with 30 bishops.
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Chrysostom delivered a series of twenty or twenty-one (the nineteenth is probably not authentic) sermons, full of vigour, consolatory, exhortative, tranquilizing, until Flavian, the bishop, brought back from Constantinople the emperor's pardon.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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I suddenly realise that the ambition of my life has been... to go on a military expedition to Constantinople.
Times, Sunday Times
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(Stuart) will lose his head, Constantinople is going to fall into the hands of the turks, ... and yes, Varus and his 3 legions will be crushed in the battle in the "saltus teutoburgiensis".
REVIEW: Give Me Back My Legions! by Harry Turtledove
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The Genoese, who, after the recovery of Constantinople, were seated in the suburb of Pera or Galata, received that honorable fief from the bounty of the emperor.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Baldekin was an exceedingly rich silk, originally made at Constantinople: it was now manufactured in England also, but the "oversea" article was the more valuable, the baldekin of Cyprus holding first rank.
The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century
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Edward was doubtless inspired by the walled city of Constantinople, which he passed through on his return from the crusades.01286 677617The largest surviving brick-built medieval barn in the country, whose grandeur suggests it was built for more than just storing straw – as does the fireplace.
Gothic architecture in Britain: examples from the era
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Spain was dissevered from the trunk of the monarchy, engaged in perpetual hostility with the East, and inclined to peace and friendship with the Christian sovereigns of Constantinople and
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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A Swedish floorball team in the city of Kalmar have a devoted fanbase who regularly chant Istanbul-Constantinople at the team's matches," writes Kalmar resident Björn Keag.
Are Newcastle United England's only united United? | The Knowledge
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As I recall, Odovacar politely packaged up the imperial regalia and sent it to the Eastern emperor Zeno in Constantinople, saying that a separate western colleague was no longer required.
Birdoswald Roman Fort: dating the post-Roman use of the site
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Constantinople: 58 but his liberality, however it might excite the applause of the people, has in curred the censure of posterity.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Under the courtly archiepiscopate of Nectarius the clergy of Constantinople became utterly corrupt and utterly worldly; but then, Nectarius was such a good manager — he kept everything so quiet, and he gave such good dinners!
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
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Constantinople with souvenirs; sometimes a sword royally enriched, sometimes a suit of rare armor, sometimes horses of El Hajez -- these were from Mahommed.
The Prince of India — Volume 02
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Until 1821 the Turkish sultans appointed governors, or hospodars, usually chosen from among the Phanariots, Greek residents of Constantinople.
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The Nestorians took their name from Nestorius, the bishop of Constantinople sacked from office by the Council of Ephesus in 431 for maintaining that the human and divine natures of Christ were not united in one person.
The Chinese are Coming
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The first efforts of the papacy to increase its power and restore its prestige coincided with the acme of the Patriarch in Constantinople around the eleventh century.
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The deal offered was that John should come to Constantinople to be crowned emperor.
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He had a profoundly religious nature and built the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, to house holy relics brought from Constantinople.
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December 15th, 2009 at 5: 49 pm but there are pre-modern analogies to detroit. rome and constantinople were built to be huge cities, but collapsed to such an extent that vast expanses of officially “urban” zones were left fallow and had re-wilded. of course was only one part of the cycle, rome bounced back from its dark age nadir, and constantinople revived upon the rents received from the ottoman empire. urgs Says:
Matthew Yglesias » Turning Detroit Around
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Turks occupy Constantinople in the 15 th century, make this holy Sophia church into the mosque.
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Desiderius kept faith at first, and proceeded to resign the districts to the pope, according to the agreement made with Pepin, so that an exarch was no longer sent from Constantinople to Ravenna, but it was governed according to the will of the pope.
The History of Florence
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The schism between the churches was finalized in 1204 when crusaders captured Constantinople.
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Turkey do male audire in this kind: Constantinople itself, where commonly carrion lies in the street.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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These little adventures occasioned me to make some observations, which of course were very ingenious and profound, upon the subject of laws; and I easily perceived that it was with them as it is with our garments: I must wear a doliman at Constantinople, and a coat at Paris.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Constantinople was also crossed by water conduits that strode over valleys like giant bridges.
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A native of Myrina in Asia Minor, where his father was a rhetor, he was educated at Alexandria and Constantinople, where he later practised law, a profession about whose conditions he complains in his Histories.
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In the Hippodrome, for example, statuary was marshaled to depict Constantinople as the New Rome.
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He planned to set up secretaries in Constantinople, the political center of the empire, and in Cairo, the intellectual center.
Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
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Shortly after, Bulgaria established its own patriarchate, independent of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Constantinople.
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They brought the eggs back to Constantinople in hollow canes.
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The Balkan peninsula, which had been raised to a high level of security and prosperity during the Roman dominion, gradually relapsed into barbarism as a result of these endless invasions; the walled towns, such as Salonika and Constantinople, were the only safe places, and the country became waste and desolate.
The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey
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Hence Russian autocracy is forced into repeated wars for the possession of Constantinople which, in the present condition of the
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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A three days 'voyage brings one to Abydos, which is upon an arm of the sea which flows between the mountains, and after a five days' journey the great town of Constantinople is reached.
The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela
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It was in their full career of victory, and when everything seemed in their power, when they had gained the whole province of Roumelia, which is round about Constantinople, that a terrible reverse befell them.
Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity
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Constantinople and take the Turk by the beard? shall we not? what sayest thou, my fair flower-de-luce?
The Life of King Henry the Fifth
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Constantinople, to use the words of Gibbon, 'which had defied the power of Chosroes, the chazan, and the caliphs, was irretrievably subdued by the arms of Mohammed II.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 419 Volume 17, New Series, January 10, 1852
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The polutasvarf was held every time an Emperor died, and Harald had been in Constantinople through the reigns on Romanos III, Michael IV, and Michael V. Harald returned triumphantly to Kiev at the age of 27 to claim the Princess Ellisif as his bride.
The Last Viking Warrior | Heretical Ideas Magazine
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Such was the fate of the Vandal king, Gelimir, paraded through Constantinople in 534 in a procession evoking the triumphs of ancient Rome.
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My imagination endowed Constantinople with all the magic of the East.
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Constantinople by the prudence, rather than clemency, of Justinian; and he commanded Dagisteus, with seven thousand Romans, and one thousand of the Zani, * to expel the Persians from the coast of the Euxine.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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We _can_ attack here with more men and more munitions than the enemy the very moment we care to accept the principle that, _at this moment_, Constantinople and the heartening up of Russia and ascendency amongst the Balkan States are not only the true positive objectives of our strategy, but are the sole strategical stunts upon the board.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2
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But we found an old "puggaree" of Rex's, of Constantinople days, fastened it on to my hat, and it answered perfectly.
Leaves from Juliana Horatia Ewing's "Canada Home"
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He likewise fixed the surra from Constantinople, or, as it is called, the Greek surra, at thirty-one thousand ducats per annum.
Travels in Arabia
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Constantine I is the eponym for Constantinople
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The word filioque was added to the symbol of Constantinople and means were sought for recovering
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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And at one point, when a new hall was being built to accommodate itinerate preachers, Franklin wrote the fund-raising document and urged citizens to be tolerant enough so “that even if the Mufti of Constantinople were to send a missionary to preach Mohammedanism to us, he would find a pulpit at his service.”
American Sketches
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Justin I in Constantinople was an orthodox Christian whereas Theodoric was an Arian.
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A hundred years later the Eastern Emperor Flavius Phocas Augustus, his own realm crumbling, elevated Boniface III, the patriarch of Rome, to a position of primacy over the other major bishops of the Christian world—those in Antioch, Alexandria, and Constantinople—and bestowed on him the title Vicar of Christ, or Pope.
The Great Experiment
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About three years ago I met a military attache from the Embassy at Constantinople, and he told me that in one rebellion there the Turkish troops had lost 80,000 men, with all their equipment, all their artillery-everything.
The Present Crisis in Turkey
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The impression is that the lay-out of the whole area resembled that of the Seraglio in Constantinople, with palaces, barracks, and other royal buildings set in an area of parkland.
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Constantinople was the only place where glyptics were understood and practised upon large hard stones in the early
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
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There is no need to labour this point further than to recall the fateful bisection of the culture of the European peninsula which resulted from the linguistic alienation of Constantinople from Rome; of the Mediterranean base which understood Latin, from that which thought in Greek.
The Unity of Civilization
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First Seljuks and later Ottomans maintained pressure on Constantinople, hoping to take a symbol of unconquered strength and great strategic importance.
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Constantinople, and received the addresses of foreign kings, the nephew of Justin assiduously cultivated the friendship of the senate.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The soldiers of the Fourth Crusade sack Constantinople and kill many fellow Christians.
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My imagination endowed Constantinople with all the magic of the East.
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In 1833, for example, the Church of Greece unilaterally and uncanonically proclaimed its independence from the patriarch of Constantinople.
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Perhaps could the eye of Anastasius have pierced through the mists of seven future centuries, could he have foreseen the insults, the extortions, the cruelties which a Roman Emperor at Constantinople was to endure at the hands of "Frankish" invaders, [111] he would not have been so eager in his worship of the new sun which was rising over Gaul from out of the marshes of the Scheldt.
Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation
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Shall not thou and I, between Saint Denis and Saint George, compound a boy, half French, half English, that shall go to Constantinople and take the Turk by the beard? shall we not? what sayest thou, my fair flower-de-luce?
Act V. Scene II. The Life of King Henry the Fifth
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Independent churches that had broken away from Constantinople such as Wallachia and Georgia, were forcibly returned to Byzantine control.
Orrologion
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Jordanes, who wrote in Constantinople in the 550s, even described the coup of 476 as if it had been a fully-fledged barbarian invasion.
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Strangely enough, the word Melchite, which had been used to designate those who adhered to the doctrines of the Church of Constantinople when it was Catholic and in unity, and who even followed it when it left the unity of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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Now we first hear of the Trisagion in the 5th century, when it was apparently used as a processional antiphon during stational services in Constantinople.
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Only then, at the very end of the 5th century, did the Bishop of Rome have a king who might be called upon to defend the faith, for the Arians were all heretics in the eyes of Rome (and of Constantinople, for that matter).
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Constantinople, jusqu '` a traiter l'Occident comne etranger; s'il ne pretend pas que 1'empire appartienne ` a l'Orient, parce que l'Orient voit naitre le Soleil, et que c'est en Orient que Dieu brilla dans une enveloppe charnelle,: [2709] 1
NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
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Saint Sophia in Constantinople is now a museum (thanks, Fisky) in Istanbul.
Archive 2004-05-09
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The period following the recapture of Constantinople in 1261 was marked by liturgical consolidation and musical creativity, processes in which monasticism played a leading role.
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As soon as he came to Constantinople Theodosius began expelling the Arians, who had hitherto been in possession.
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Cet homme, habile dans les affaires, et employ� comme tel par Charlemagne, avoit 閠� en 811 envoy� par lui en ambassade � Constantinople.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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The pashalik of Djidda was reduced to perfect insignificance by the power of the sherif of Mekka; and the title had become merely an honorary distinction, enjoyed by the individual on whom it had been bestowed, while he resided in some provincial town of Turkey or at Constantinople, without ever attempting to take possession of his government.
Travels in Arabia
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The Ottoman sultan seized the title of caliph from the Arabs and moved the capital of the Islamic empire to Istanbul formerly Constantinople.
The Coming Revolution
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The architecture of Constantinople had probably inspired Edward when he was fighting there in the Crusades and the castle's grand style also underlines his imperial intentions.
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Quini-sextan Council at Constantinople (_in Trullo_), 85, 89-92
The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003
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Gringoire had ascertained that, as quite a little child, she had gone all through Spain and Catalonia, and into Sicily; he thought even that the caravan of Zingari, to which she belonged, had carried her into the kingdom of Algiersa country situated in Achaia, which Achaia was adjoining on one side to lesser Albania and Greece, and on the other to the sea of the Sicilies, which is the way to Constantinople.
II. Showing That a Priest and a Philosopher Are Not the Same. Book VII
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His operational flying looked as promising as his civilian flying had, until he went on a night bombing raid over Constantinople.
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During this journey Layard became fascinated by archaeology and became an unpaid diplomatic attaché in Constantinople so that he could continue and expand his interests.
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Constantinople, but, in the second Iconoclastic persecution, he seems to have felt no vocation for confessorship, and went to Rome.
Hymns of the Eastern Church
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The fall of Constantinople to the Turkish Ottoman forces signalled a decisive shift in international political power and confirmed the Ottomans as the most powerful empire that Europe had seen since the days of the Roman Empire.
