Built as Byzantium, and then renamed Constantinople, Istanbul officially received its present name on this day in 1930.

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In 1953, a pioneer of women’s sports in Greece, Loukia Skrivanou, then a member of the Olympiacos women’s basketball team and ...

"With this cross, I pray you bring peace to the world and make America invincible!" said Archbishop Elpidophoros of the Greek ...

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In Constantinople, Ezio searches for the keys ... and Benjamin Franklin. The present-day story concludes Desmond's arc, as he and the other modern-day Assassins gather in the aforementioned ...

who founded and built the magnificent city of Constantinople — my birthplace, known today as Istanbul," he said, drawing cheers at the mention of Constantine. "It is my great honor to present ...

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