Ciragan was the last palace built in Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire for royal family members.
Land forces, aided by the navy, would advance to Constantinople, and Turkey would surrender.
In 1909, young Turks deposed Sultan Abdul Hamid three days after a liberation army had taken Constantinople.
They transformed what had been for a thousand years the largest cathedral in Christendom, Constantinople's magnificent St.
Leigh Fermor is still finishing the third volume of his trilogy, which will see him, finally, reach Constantinople.
And bin Laden-like fanatics could hardly accuse the heirs of the Constantinople-conquering Ottoman Empire of being anti-Islamic latter-day Crusaders.
This is the former Constantinople, the one-time capital of Eastern Christianity that fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
In 1716, he was sent to Constantinople as ambassador to the Ottoman empire.
The Orthodox churches are Catholic, the biggest headed by the Patriarch of Constantinople.
The first was in Constantinople and mysteriously disappeared in the sack of the city in the Fourth Crusade in 1204.
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In 1896, Armenian revolutionaries attacked the Ottoman Bank in Constantinople, provoking a three-day battle in which at least 6, 000 Armenians died.
He points out that in 1453 it took 40 days for the pope to learn that Constantinople had fallen to the Turks.
So if you've a date in Constantinople, she'll be waiting in Istanbul.
Of course, the natural question is why we have no recorded instances of Dr. Brvce Banner turning green and smashing up Byzantine Constantinople?
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With the monarch's approval, Potemkin colonised Crimea, did battle with the Ottoman empire and dreamed up an ambitious plan for reinstating a Christian emperor in Constantinople.
In the Muscovite camp, rumours were rife that Patriarch Bartholomew was about to recognise unilaterally an independent Ukrainian church, causing an almost irreparable breach between Moscow and Constantinople.
She describes the Byzantine empire's appropriation of the Mother of God as protectress of the city of Constantinople and its rulers and the intricate metaphysical groundwork which made that change possible.
It was founded in 1924 by Greek refugees from Constantinople (now Istanbul) -- with AEK standing for Athletic Union of Constantinople in English -- following the Greco-Turkish war of 1919-1922.
Europe, as he sees it, Islam's next frontier. 1999 YUSUF QARADAWI: So Constantinople has been conquered and now the second part of the prophecy remains, which is the conquest of Rome.
Sultan Mehmet II, the conqueror of Constantinople, wanted his portrait painted and since Islamic painting focused on calligraphy and miniatures, being painted by a top Venetian portraitist was the ultimate luxury.
Every gal in Constantinople lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople.
After a claims committee met in New York and Paris, New York Life decided to send a lawyer to Constantinople in 1917 to pay off 38% of its outstanding policies, leaving 2, 186 unresolved.
Across the Europe, the Russian steppes and through the Byzantine wonder of Constantinople, gateway to Asia, Kerbouchard is thrust into the heart of the treacheries, passions, violence and dazzling wonders of a magnificent time.
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