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Definition of Stambul
1. Noun. The largest city and former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century; renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire; now the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Terms within: Bosporus Bridge, Hagia Sofia, Hagia Sophia, Santa Sofia, Santa Sophia, Chalcedon, Kadikoy
Generic synonyms: City, Metropolis, Urban Center
Group relationships: Republic Of Turkey, Turkey
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stambul
Literary usage of Stambul
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rise of Nationality in the Balkans by Robert William Seton-Watson (1918)
"THE RISE OF NATIONALITY IN THE BALKANS CHAPTER I BYZANTIUM AND Stambul THE master of
... Stambul ..."
2. The Sultan and His Subjects by Richard Davey (1897)
"Scutari is much more Oriental than Stambul in general. It is by far the most
orthodox quarter of the city, except, perhaps, the little village of ..."
3. The Sultan and His Subjects by Richard Davey (1897)
"ROUND AND ABOUT Stambul. EVEN as the Neapolitans proudly rejoice in the possession
of Capri and Ischia, so does the dweller in Constantinople glory in the ..."
4. Washed by Four Seas, an English Officer's Travels in the Near East by Henry Charles Woods (1908)
"If, like myself, any of the readers who have never visited Stambul are disappointed
with this ancient building when they pay their first visit to the ..."
5. The Pupils of Peter the Great: A History of the Russian Court and Empire by Robert Nisbet Bain (1897)
"... Anti-Russian intrigues of the French at Stockholm and Stambul — Lord Kinnoul —
Negotiations Russia with Kuli Khan — War declared against the Porte. ..."
6. Holy Russia and Other Poems by Percy Ewing Matheson (1918)
"Stambul the Prophet now denies: The worldly West with all its lies Darkness ...
Stambul beguiled by sweets of vice Prayer and the sword hath now betrayed: ..."
7. Modern Greek in Asia Minor: A Study of the Dialects of Siĺli, Cappadocia and by Richard McGillivray Dawkins, William Reginald Halliday (1916)
"In the Stambul stories the translation on p. 166 "Biat du ein Mensch? ...
(Stambul), p. 183, we have the answer "Weder In noch ..."
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