Istimporin - Istimporin

Japanese: イスティンポリン - いすてぃんぽりん
Istimporin - Istimporin

… On May 29, 1453, after more than 40 days of fierce fighting, the Ottoman army breached the city walls and entered the city, bringing the Byzantine Empire to an end. The Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II immediately made the city the new capital of his empire, renamed it Istanbul (from the Greek Istinpolin, meaning "to the city"), and had the Hagia Sophia converted into a mosque (now the Aya Sophia). The Sultan then began the reconstruction of the new capital, first guaranteeing the safety of the lives and property of the former citizens who had remained in the city after the conquest, and forcibly relocating wealthy merchants and craftsmen, including Turks, Greeks, Armenians, Jews, Bulgarians, and Serbs, who lived in Anatolia and the Balkans. …

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Japanese:

… 1453年5月29日,40日余の激戦の末,オスマン帝国軍は市壁を破って入城し,ビザンティン帝国は滅亡した。オスマン帝国のスルタン,メフメト2世は,ただちにこの町を帝国の新しい首都とするとともに,その名をイスタンブル(ギリシア語で〈町へ〉を意味するイスティンポリンIstinpolinに由来する)と改名し,ハギア・ソフィアをモスクに改築(現,アヤ・ソフィア)させた。スルタンは,これにつづいて新首都の再建事業に乗り出し,まず征服後市内にふみとどまった旧市民の生命・財産の安全を保証するとともに,アナトリアとバルカン領土内に住むトルコ人,ギリシア人,アルメニア人,ユダヤ人,ブルガリア人,セルビア人などの富裕な商人や職人を強制的に移住させた。…

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