Istanbul Definition
ĭstăn-bo͝ol, -tän-, ĭ-stänbo͝ol
pronoun
Turkish city and largest European city by population which was the last capital of Ottoman Empire.
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Origin of Istanbul
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The name Istanbul was given to the city of Constantinople after the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.The word is a bastardization of the Byzantine Greek phrase εἰς τὴν Πόλιν (eis tēn Polin, “to the City”), which is how Constantinople was referred to by the local Greeks.
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