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The history of Istanbul is in some ways the story of the rise and fall of different religions. The city's foundation was laid by Emperor Constantine barely three centuries after Christ's death. He declared the former city of Byzantium to be Roman Empire's new capital and renamed it Constantinople. He raised the stature of the Bishop of Constantinople, which centuries later which divided Christianity into Eastern Orthodoxy and Western Catholicism.
The city itself, populated by people from so many different areas and Empires, had specific quarters or districts, whether Greek or Armenian or this, the Turkish one. |
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