Constantinople

Japanese: Constantinople
Constantinople

The city was known as Byzantine in the Byzantine period as Constantinopolis, and is now called Istanbul in Turkish. The English name Constantinople is also widely used as an earlier name.
[Ancient Greek and Roman Period]
It is said to have been founded as a Greek colony by the Megarians in 659 BC (according to Eusebius of Caesarea) or 668 BC (according to Herodotus) at the southern end of the European side of the Bosphorus, at the site of the modern Topkapi Palace, at the end of a peninsula bounded by the Golden Horn to the north and the Sea of ​​Marmara to the south.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Constantinople" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…古代ギリシア・ローマ時代はビュザンティオンByzantion,ビュザンティウムByzantium,ビザンティン時代はコンスタンティノポリスKōnstantinoupolis∥Constantinopolisの名で知られ,トルコ語で正しくはイスタンブルとよばれる。コンスタンティノポリスの英語名コンスタンティノープルConstantinopleも旧称として広く使われている。
【古代ギリシア・ローマ時代】
 ボスポラス海峡のヨーロッパ側南端部,北を金角湾,南をマルマラ海で挟まれた半島のさき,現代のトプカプ宮殿の地点に,前659年(カエサレアのエウセビオス伝承)ないし前668年(ヘロドトス伝承)に,メガラ人により,ギリシア人植民市として建設されたといわれる。…

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