Quotes About Constantinople

It was thinner than a portrait painter in Constantinople...

the Council of Constantinople that made Nicene orthodoxy the official religion of the empire in 381.

In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.

Ah, Constantinople, I would so love to visit Constantinople, to see its domes and minarets, to walk inside the Sancta Sophia and breathe the ancient air of Byzantium—

In 381, he attended the general council held at Constantinople, and joined the other bishops in condemning the Macedonian heretics.

Propelled to search for pockets of religious freedom, the Spanish exiles made their way to various corners of the Muslim Ottoman Empire, including Constantinople, Salonika, and Sarajevo. By the mid-sixteenth century, Constantinople had 50,000 Jews, a mix of Spanish exiles, native Jews known as Romaniot, Italians, and Ashkenazim who were organized into scores of religious communities

Obscure as still remains the origin of that 'genre' of romance to which the tales before us belong, there is little doubt that their models, if not their originals, were once extant at Constantinople.

Infidel n: in New York one who does not believe in the Christian religion in Constantinople one who does.

Antioch was the last of the great cities of Arab Asia to have fallen under the domination of the Seljuk Turks: in 1084 it was still a dependency of Constantinople. Thirteen years later, when the Frankish knights laid siege to the town, Yaghi-SiyÁn was naturally convinced that this was part of an attempt

The first two crusades brought the flower of European chivalry to Constantinople and restored that spiritual union between Eastern and Western Christendom that had been interrupted by the great schism of the Greek and Roman Churches.

El gobierno eligió el 24 de abril de 1915 —fecha en que a partir de entonces se conmemora el genocidio armenio— para detener y asesinar a los principales intelectuales armenios de Constantinopla. Y continuaron el pogromo con la destrucción general y sistemática de la raza armenia en Turquía.

On August 2, Germany and Turkey had signed a defensive alliance against Russia. The Turks were reluctant, however, to take the actual step into war and the German embassy in Constantinople was recommending application of pressure on the grand vizier and his Cabinet. The sight of Goeben anchored off the Golden Horn was thought likely to offer formidable persuasion.

There were so many places where one might deteriorate pleasantly: Port Said, Shanghai, parts of Turkestan, Constantinople, the South Seas - all lands of sad, haunting music and many odors, where lust could be a mode and expression of life, where the shades of night skies and sunsets would seem to reflect only moods of passion: the colors of lips and poppies.

Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.

El Concilio de Nicea (325) y Constantinopla (381) afirmaron que Cristo es "Hijo único de Dios, nacido del Padre antes de todos los siglos: Dios de Dios, Luz de Luz, Dios verdadero de Dios verdadero, engendrado, no creado, de la misma naturaleza del Padre, por quien todo fue hecho

In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.

This radical new policy provoked the first serious disagreement between the churches of Constantinople and Rome

the last great dynasty of Byzantine emperors, the Palaiologoi, to rule from Constantinople.8

Constantinople had been saved, and with it the Greek-speaking Roman Empire.

From then on, this would remain the official title, in Greek, of every ruler to rule from Constantinople

Perhaps no defensive structure summarized the truth of siege warfare in the ancient and medieval world as clearly as the walls of Constantinople. The city lived under siege for almost all its life; its defenses reflected the deepest character and history of the place, its mixture of confidence and fatalism, divine inspiration and practical skill, longevity and conservatism.

Constantinople was the first European city to experience the Black Death:

The Orthodox, in reply, claimed that the addition was theologically untrue; that the Holy Spirit proceeds only from the Father, and to add the name of the Son was heretical. Such issues were the stuff of riots within Constantinople.

Constantinople is a city larger than its renown proclaims. May God in his grace and generosity deign to make it the capital of Islam.