Constantinople

(anc.; Byzantium), c. cap. of Turkey; excellent situation at junction of Bosporus and Sea of Marmora ancient; founders ordered by oracle to found it “ opposite; the city of the blind i.e. opposite site of Chalcedon, whose founders were ‘ blind ' in choosing that site; above site of Byzantium was open to them rebuilt by Const an tine in 330 A.D., who gave it his; name; seat of Eastern Roman Empire till 1453, when it was taken by the Turks under Mohammed II.; population is very heterogeneous more Mu ulmans (384,910) than any other sect, but fewer; Mu ulmans than all the other sects taken together inch suburbs, 873,565.