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Mosques built by Sultan Suleiman I and his successors gave the city the unique appearance it still preserves today. The individual communities, though, still lived in self-contained areas. A 16th century Chinese geographical treatise described Constantinople/Istanbul as follows: Its city has two walls. A sovereign prince lives in the city.
Constantinople [a] (see other names) 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 AD to 1930, when it was renamed to Istanbul. Constantinople was founded in 324 AD during the reign of Constantine the Great on the site of the existing ...
1 May: Nea Ekklesia built. 907 – Siege of Constantinople (907). 908 – Lips Monastery built. 920 – Myrelaion built. 922 – Battle of Constantinople (922). 941 – Siege of Constantinople (941). 971 – Church of Christ of the Chalke built by emperor John I Tzimiskes. 1000 – Hagios Theodoros built (approximate date).
The 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes collapsed many older buildings and some recent ones: [27] the Environment and Urbanization Ministry is assessing the damage. [28] Unreinforced masonry buildings are vulnerable. [29] Many older buildings in Istanbul are vulnerable to pancake collapses. [30] Retrofitting old buildings is possible but expensive ...
Istanbul's first private university, Koç University, was founded as late as 1992, because private universities were not allowed in Turkey before the 1982 amendment to the constitution. [312] Istanbul is also home to several conservatories and art schools, including Mimar Sinan Academy of Fine Arts, founded in 1882. [317]
Byzantium (/ b ɪ ˈ z æ n t i ə m,-ʃ ə m /) or Byzantion (Ancient Greek: Βυζάντιον) was an ancient Greek city in classical antiquity that became known as Constantinople in late antiquity and Istanbul today.
Map of Constantinople in the Byzantine Era (before the Ottoman conquest) Sultan Bayezid I considered taking Constantinople, but he was occupied with wars in the west and east and did not want to divert significant forces to storm the well-fortified city. He decided to take Constantinople by force, and for seven years, beginning in 1394, he ...
It then lost Africa to the Umayyads in 698, before the empire was rescued by the Isaurian dynasty. The fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 marked the end of the Byzantine Empire. Refugees fleeing the city after its capture would settle in Italy and other parts of Europe, helping to ignite the Renaissance.