Individual #Istanbul__Stambul__Stamboul__Constantinople  the largest city and former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century; renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire; now the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church
  instance of:  #city
  part:  #Bosporus_Bridge
  part of:  #Turkey__Republic_of_Turkey  a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1923
     part of:  #Asia_Minor__Anatolia  a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey
        part of:  #Asia  the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
           part of:  #Eurasia  the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia
              part of:  #eastern_hemisphere__easternhemisphere__orient  the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia
              part of:  #northern_hemisphere  the hemisphere north of the equator
     part of:  #Balkan_Peninsula__Balkans  a large peninsula in southeastern Europe containing the Balkan Mountain Range
        part of:  #Europe  the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles
           part of:  #Eurasia  the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia
     part of:  #Middle_East__Near_East  the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to North Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; "the Middle East is the cradle of Western civilization"
     part of:  pm#Mediterranean_region

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