Nothing Holy Roman about Constantinople

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: December 22, 2002 | Copyright information

I must point out to Kevin Myers that Constantinople was not the former capital of the Holy Roman Empire, and thereby of Europe ("There's a place for Turkey in Europe", Comment, December 15). The 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica states that Constantinople was "famous in history, first as the capital of the Roman empire in the East for more than 11 centuries (330-1453), and secondly as the capital of the Ottoman empire since 1453".

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