Quran Universe

Istanbul (Constantinople), Also Byzantium, Constantinople, Qustantiniyya, Islambol, Istanbul

City

CityAlso Byzantium, Constantinople, Qustantiniyya, Islambol, Istanbul

Istanbul (Constantinople)إسطنبول

The city of Constantine, besieged by the early Muslims and taken by Mehmed II in 1453.

Constantine made it the new Rome in 330, and for a thousand years it was the Christian capital of the east. Muslim armies besieged it in the 670s and 717; Abu Ayyub al-Ansari died during an early siege and is buried by its walls. Mehmed II took it in 1453, and it became the Ottoman capital.

What does the Quran say?

30:2-4

What does the hadith say?

Sahih al-Bukhari 2924

What happened here?

Who lived here?

Abu Ayyub al-AnsariMehmed IIBayezid IISelim ISuleiman ISelim IIMurad IIIMehmed IIIAhmed IMustafa IOsman IIMurad IVIbrahimMehmed IVSuleiman IIAhmed IIMustafa IIAhmed IIIMahmud IOsman IIIMustafa IIIAbdul Hamid ISelim IIIMustafa IVMahmud IIAbdulmejid IAbdulazizMurad VAbdul Hamid IIMehmed VMehmed VIAbdulmejid IITheodosius IIConstantineJustinianHeracliusConstans IILeo III the IsaurianNikephoros IRomanos IV DiogenesAlexios I KomnenosConstantine XITheodosius IMaslamah ibn Abd al-MalikTaqi al-DinMimar SinanEbussuud EfendiKatip CelebiEvliya CelebiIbrahim MuteferrikaJamal al-Din al-Afghani

Who else is linked?

Roman EmpireByzantine EmpireUmayyad CaliphateOttoman EmpireRepublic of TurkeyThe Romans (Rum)

Everyone and everything in the timeline

People named in the Quran and the hadith, the Prophet's ﷺ family and Companions, scholars, rulers, the nations of the Quran, the world's empires and the places where it all happened. Where scholars differ, each entry says so.

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