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His advisor in these affairs was Eusebius of Nicomedia, who had already at the Council of Nicea been the head of the Arian party, who also was made bishop of Constantinople.
There also is no mention of Troy, which was not far from Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine empire and militarily beyond the reach of the Vikings.
He also translated four books against the errors of the Greeks, by Manuel Kalekas, Patriarch of Constantinople, a Dominican friar ( Ingolstadt, 1608 ), P. G., CLII, col. 13-661, a work known only through Ambrose's translation.
This second post he seems also to have left after a short interval, for he appeared again in Constantinople, and narrowly escaped death at the hands of the brothers of Eudoxia.
The Oriental Orthodox Churches ( also called Old Oriental Churches ) are those eastern churches that recognize the first three ecumenical councils — Nicaea, Constantinople and Ephesus — but reject the dogmatic definitions of the Council of Chalcedon and instead espouse a Miaphysite christology.
However, the social fabric of Constantinople was also damaged by the onset of Plague of Justinian between 541 – 542 AD.
It is certain that the Venetians and others were active traders in Constantinople, making a living out of shipping goods between the Crusader Kingdoms of Outremer and the West, while also trading extensively with Byzantium and Egypt.
In 1171, Constantinople also contained a small community of 2, 500 Jews.
Beautiful silks from the work-shops of Constantinople also portrayed in dazzling colour animals-lions, elephants, eagles, and griffins-confronting each other, or represented Emperors gorgeously arrayed on horseback or engaged in the chase.
Constantinople is also of great religious importance to Islam, as the conquest of Constantinople is one of the signs of the End time in Islam.
* " Constantinople " was also the title of the opening edit of The Residents ' EP Duck Stab !, released in 1978.
The Council of Chalcedon also elevated the See of Constantinople to a position " second in eminence and power to the Bishop of Rome ".
Those of Hagia Sophia at Constantinople, of the 8th and 9th century, are wrought in bronze, and the west doors of the cathedral of Aix-la-Chapelle ( 9th century ), of similar manufacture, were probably brought from Constantinople, as also some of those in St. Marks, Venice.
Thus the Eastern First Council of Constantinople became ecumenical only when its decrees were accepted in the West also.
Its present canon law requires that an ecumenical council be convoked and presided over, either personally or through a delegate, by the Pope, who is also to decide the agenda ; but the church makes no claim that all past ecumenical councils observed these present rules, declaring only that the Pope's confirmation or at least recognition has always been required, and saying that the version of the Nicene Creed adopted at the First Council of Constantinople ( 381 ) was accepted by the Church of Rome only seventy years later, in 451.
She was also instrumental in developing trade agreements with Constantinople and ports of trade in the Holy Lands.
Shortly after the Roman Emperor Constantine I legalized Christianity in 321, he also constructed an elaborate second capital of the Roman Empire located at Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople, in 324.
After the capture of Constantinople ( also called the Eastern Roman Empire ) in 1453, the Ottoman sultan's also styled themselves Kaysar-i Rum ( Emperor of the Romans ) as they asserted themselves to be the heirs to the Roman empire by right of conquest.
The highest-ranking bishop of the communion is the Patriarch of Constantinople, who is also primate of one of the autocephalous churches.
The Cappadocian Fathers also took up the torch ; their Trinitarian discourse was influential in the council at Constantinople.
After forty years under the control of Arian bishops, the churches of Constantinople were now restored to those who subscribed to the Nicene Creed ; Arians were also ejected from the churches of other cities in the Eastern Roman Empire thus re-establishing Christian orthodoxy in the East.

Constantinople and makes
* Constantinople, as seen under the Byzantine emperor Theodosius II, makes several on-screen appearances in the television miniseries " Attila " as the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.
* Folk Metal band Turisas makes multiple references to Constantinople in their song " Miklagard Overture ", referring to it as " Konstantinopolis ", " Tsargrad ", and " Miklagard ".
* Constantinople makes an appearance in the MMORPG game Silkroad as a major capital, along with a major Chinese capital.
* Constantinople makes an appearance in the " Rome Total War " expansion " Barbarian Invasion " belonging to the Eastern Roman Empire
* Constantinople makes an appearance in the game " Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings " in the fifth scenario of the Barbarossa campaign and again in the third scenario of the Attila the Hun campaign in the expansion pack " Age of Empires II: The Conquerors Expansion ".
* 330: Constantine makes Constantinople into his capital, a new Rome.
* 380 – Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
In 1573, for instance, a Venetian visitor to the Ottoman Empire observed that many of the Turkish natives of Constantinople regularly drink a " certain black water made with opium " that makes them feel good, but to which they become so addicted that if they try to go without they will " quickly die.
The fact that he fled to Constantinople, where he received protection, makes it probable that his rise to papacy might have been associated with the policy of the Greek Emperor, who at this time was pushing to displace the German influence in Salerno.
* November 24 – Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
* 330 – Constantine makes Constantinople the capital.
In addition Liutprand of Cremona, makes no mention of this, and it would have been very interesting to him, given that he was a thorough gossip, had been ambassador to Constantinople and devoted several chapters to the misadventures of Louis in Italy with no mention of these Byzantine connections.
Sir Roger, in order to intimidate the aliens, makes up tall tales about his estate, " which only took up three planets " and his other accomplishments, including a very successful conquest of Constantinople.
The recognition of the autocephalous Bulgarian Patriarchate by the Patriarchate of Constantinople in 927 AD makes the Bulgarian Orthodox Church the oldest autocephalous Slavic Orthodox Church in the world, which was added to the Pentarchy of the original Patriarchates-those of Rome ( i. e., the Roman Catholic Papacy ), Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem-and the autocephalous Georgian Orthodox Church.
According to Kantacouzenos he desired to expand the country from Byzantium to the Istros, i. e. from Constantinople to the Danube which makes him the last medieval Bulgarian ruler who effectively attempted to capture the Byzantine capital.
He is also credited with the Geodaesia, a work in practical geometry and ballistics which makes use of locations around Constantinople to illustrate its points.

Constantinople and appearance
This led to a popular uprising by the citizens of Constantinople in 1044, which was only quietened by the appearance of Zoe and Theodora at a balcony, who reassured the mob that they were not in any danger of assassination.
Preparing for a journey to Tarsus, he called on the Bishop of Tarsus, Diodore, who was attending the First Council of Constantinople ( one of the ecumenical councils ), to ask if he could take letters for him ; his appearance and manners struck Diodorus so forcibly that he at once determined that he should be advanced as a candidate for Bishop ; making an excuse of attending to some other business, he took Nectarius to see the bishop of Antioch, who asked Nectarius to put off his journey a short time.
The last appearance of the Byzantine navy was in the final Ottoman siege of 1453, when a mixed fleet of Byzantine, Genoese and Venetian ships ( varying numbers are provided by the sources, ranging from 10 to 39 vessels ) defended Constantinople against the Ottoman fleet.

Constantinople and War
But it was unaware of the Bulgarian plans over Thrace and Constantinople, territories on which it had long-held ambitions, and on which it had just secured a secret agreement of expansion from its allies France and Britain, as a reward for participating in the upcoming Great War against the Central Powers.
Gallipoli became a major encampment for British and French forces in 1854 during the Crimean War, and the harbour was also a stopping-off point on the way to Constantinople.
The borders of the Kingdom were reiterated in the London Protocol of 30 August 1832 signed by the Great Powers, which ratified the terms of the Constantinople Arrangement in connection with the border between Greece and the Ottoman Empire and marked the end of the Greek War of Independence creating modern Greece as an independent state free of the Ottoman Empire.
* September 29 – Second Balkan War: A peace treaty is signed in Constantinople between the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Bulgaria.
* May 11 – Greece is recognized as a sovereign nation ; the Treaty of Constantinople ends the Greek War of Independence in July.
In the aftermath of the Greco-Turkish War ( 1919 – 1922 ), a large-scale population exchange between Greece and Turkey transferred and confined Christians from Turkey, except Constantinople ( effectively ethnic Greeks ) into the borders of the modern Greek state and Cyprus.
* Oleg leads the Kievan Rus ' in a campaign against Constantinople ( see Rus '- Byzantine War ( 907 )).
During the Balkan Wars and the Greco-Turkish War, under the influence of the Megali Idea, the name of the then-Greek king, Constantine, was used in Greece as a popular confirmation of the prophetic myth about the Marble King who would liberate Constantinople and recreate the lost Empire.
* Roger Crowley, 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West.
In 1476, the Venetians and the island's Greek inhabitants successfully defended Kotsinos against a Turkish siege, but the island was ceded to the Ottomans by the 1479 Treaty of Constantinople which ended the First Ottoman-Venetian War.
: The conquest of Constantinople by the Ottomans signalled the end of the Byzantine empire ; the Battle of Castillon concluded the Hundred Years ' War.
Vergennes arrived in Constantinople as the Seven Years War was brewing and a new monarch Osman III had recently come to the throne.
Sixtus arrived with French-agreed conditions for talks — the restoration to France of Alsace-Lorraine ( annexed by Germany after the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 ); restoration of the independence of Belgium ; independence for the kingdom of Serbia ; and the handover of Constantinople to Russia.
During the Greek War of Independence he had energetically supported the Greek cause and backed the Treaty of Constantinople that gave Greece its independence.
But she was unaware of the Bulgarian plans over Thrace and Constantinople, territories on which she had long-held ambitions, and on which she had just secured a secret agreement of expansion from her allies France and Britain, as a reward in participating in the upcoming World War I against the Central Powers.
The golden bowl was carried off by the Phocians during the Third Sacred War ( 356 – 346 BC ); the stand was removed by the emperor Constantine to Constantinople in 324, where in modern Istanbul it still can be seen in the hippodrome, the Atmeydanı, although in damaged condition: the heads of the serpents have disappeared, however one is now on display at the nearby Istanbul Archaeology Museums.
Mehmed V hosted Kaiser Wilhelm II, his World War I ally, in Constantinople on 15 October 1917.
In the closing months of World War 1, Bennett undertook an intensive course in Turkish language at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and was posted to Constantinople, where he held a sensitive position in Anglo-Turkish relations.
After the First World War and the Russian Revolution, many displaced people passed through Constantinople en route to the West.
War broke out between Mehmed and İsa, and following the battles of Ermeni-beli and Ulubad, Isa fled to Constantinople and Mehmed occupied Bursa.
However, the population of Constantinople considered the Isaurians as barbarians, and emperor Anastasius I had to fight a long war against Isaurian rebels ( Isaurian War, 492-497 ).
Victory in World War I seemed to promise an even greater realization of the Megali Idea, as Greece gained the Asia Minor city of Smyrna and its hinterland, the islands of Imbros and Tenedos, and Western and Eastern Thrace, the border then drawn a few miles from the walls of Constantinople: the imperial City seemed within reach.
He was a professor at the University of Constantinople during World War I, when he was an officer in the German army stationed in Turkey.

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