stamboul
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1. the largest city and former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century; renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire; now the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church (noun.location)
| instance hypernym | : | city, metropolis, urban center, |
| definition | : | a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | bosporus bridge, |
| definition | : | a suspension bridge across the Bosporus at Istanbul (noun.artifact) |
| part holonym | : | hagia sofia, hagia sophia, santa sofia, santa sophia, |
| definition | : | a 6th century masterpiece of Byzantine architecture in Istanbul; built as a Christian church, converted to a mosque in 1453, and made into a museum in the middle of the 20th century (noun.artifact) |
| part holonym | : | chalcedon, kadikoy, |
| definition | : | a former town on the Bosporus (now part of Istanbul); site of the Council of Chalcedon (noun.location) |
| part meronym | : | republic of turkey, turkey, |
| definition | : | a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923 (noun.location) |
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