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Constantinople (modern Istanbul), the capital of the eastern Roman Empire. Later also: Moscow, proposed as being destined to assume a similarly…
In Turkey: a gun-factory or arsenal, spec. the gun-factories in Galata, Constantinople (Istanbul), during the Ottoman Empire; hence (the current…
The area of Istanbul which became the chief Greek quarter after the Ottoman Conquest; the Greek official class under the Turks, through whom the…