constantinople
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1. the second ecumenical council in 381 which added wording about the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed (noun.group)
2. the council in 869 that condemned Photius who had become the patriarch of Constantinople without approval from the Vatican, thereby precipitating the schism between the eastern and western churches (noun.group)
hypernym | : | council, |
definition | : | (Christianity) an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine (noun.group) |
3. 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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