Only Constantinople holds out, getting weaker and weaker.

只有士坦丁堡坚持了下来，但是也越来越弱。

Archbishop Aristarchos of Constantina is with the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

士坦丁堡主教阿里斯塔科斯和耶路撒冷牧首观点一致。

Sinan had thought obsessively about the long history of Constantinople.

希南曾非常痴迷于士坦丁堡那段悠长的历史。

The world's first coffeehouse was opened in Constantinople in 1475.

1475 年，世界上第一家咖啡馆在士坦丁堡开业。

Because Constantinople controlled the shipping lanes connecting the Black Sea with the Mediterranean, it controlled the trade routes between Europe and Asia making Byzantine merchants rich, rich, rich and raking in revenue for the State.

由于士坦丁堡控制了连接黑海和地中海的航线，它也就控制了欧亚之间的贸易，这样拜占庭的商人也因此发家致富，也为家提供了量的税收。

But they were pretty much just completely autonomous and doing their own thing like invading and conquering Sudan without necessarily getting any approval from the Ottomans in Constantinople.

但埃及几乎完是治家，做着己的事情，比如入侵和征服苏丹，而不一定需要得到士坦丁堡奥斯曼人的任何批准。

I imagined I was really flying across an ocean in an airplane, looking over my notes for a big story while on the way to Constantinople or Khartoum.

我想象着己真的坐着飞机飞越洋，在去士坦丁堡或喀土穆的路上翻阅着笔记，以寻找一个重要的报道。

The area, seeing virtually immediate success, was declared in the Constantinople Convention to be an international zone under British protection.

该地区，几乎同一时间声名噪，士坦丁堡公约正式，士坦丁堡成为受英保护的际区。

In the ninth century, visitors from beyond the frontier were astonished at the graceful stone arches and domes of the imperial palace in Constantinople.

在第九世纪，来远方的游者们为士坦丁堡皇宫里优美的拱门和穹顶所震撼。

In 1717, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, an English aristocrat living in Constantinople with her husband, a diplomat, heard about inoculation from her acquaintances in the Ottoman court.

1717年，英贵族玛丽·沃特利·蒙塔古夫人和她当外交官的丈夫住在士坦丁堡，从奥斯曼帝宫廷的熟人那里听说了接种疗法。

As an example, the very first menu in the book is dinner on The Orient Express from 1884 when it traveled from Paris to Constantinople.

举个例子，书中的第一份菜单是 1884 年东方快车的晚餐，当时它从巴黎开往士坦丁堡。

The statue was carried off to Constantinople and was destroyed in either the 5th or the 6th century CE due to an earthquake.

这座雕像被带到士坦丁堡，并在公元 5 世纪或 6 世纪因地震而被摧毁。

In 1570 there were more than 600 of them in Constantinople alone, and they spread north and west with the Ottoman empire.

1570年，仅在士坦丁堡就有600多家咖啡馆，它们随着奥斯曼帝的扩张向北和向西蔓延。

Columbus's " discovery" of America and the fall of Constantinople marked the end of the Middle Ages.

哥伦布“发现" 美洲和士坦丁堡的沦陷标志着中世纪的结束。

The Orthodox Church of Ukraine is a separate body, aligned with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.

乌克兰东正教会是一个独立的机构，与士坦丁堡普世牧首保持一致。

That's when Constantine, the first Christian emperor, moved the capital of the Roman Empire to a new city called Constantinople, which he founded on the site of the ancient Greek city Byzantion.

康斯坦丁，这时的第一任基督徒王将罗马帝的首都迁到士坦丁堡，这个新首都建在古希腊城市拜占庭的遗迹上。

As seen through the spread of the bubonic plague in 542 CE, which is thought to have traveled to Constantinople from the east along the Silk Road.

从公元 542 年黑死病的传播可以看出，人们认为黑死病是从东方沿着丝绸之路传到士坦丁堡的。

On a more positive note the stream of refugees from Constantinople included scholars with their priceless ancient manuscripts.

好的一面是从士坦丁堡逃离的难民中包括很多学者他们带了很多无价的手稿。

There, generations of emperors ruled for the next 11 centuries.

正是在士坦丁堡，罗马王们延续了长达11个世纪的统治。

These included Constantinople's choice location, its closeness to trade routes, a more highly urbanized society and most importantly the knack of diverting Barbarian invasions away from them and towards the Western Empire.

例如，士坦丁堡的地理位置接近东西贸易要道，社会高度城市化，更重要的是，他们能够避开蛮族入侵，并且把蛮族引向入侵西罗马帝。