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Istanbul


(IS-tahm-bool, IS-tam-bool, is-tahm-BOOHL, is-tam-BOOHL) Largest city in Turkey, located in the northwestern part of the country on both sides of the Bosporus.	1
‡ Formerly called Byzantium, then Constantinople, the city was the capital consecutively of the eastern branch of the Roman Empire, of the Byzantine Empire, and of the Ottoman Empire.	2
‡ It is the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church.	3

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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