Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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Istanbul | Yes | No | No | No |
Constantinople | Yes | No | No | No |
Istanbul (noun) | Constantinople (noun) |
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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 | the second ecumenical council in 381 which added wording about the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed |
the fifth ecumenical council in 553 which held Origen's writings to be heretic | |
the sixth ecumenical council in 680-681 which condemned Monothelitism by defining two wills in Christ, divine and human | |
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 | |
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 |