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İstanbul

İstanbul is the rare spelling of Istanbul.

Meaning of Istanbul

Proper noun

Istanbul

  1. A Turkish city, and the largest European city by population, which was the last capital of the Ottoman Empire and the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire).
    • Nearly a century ago, my grandfather passed through Istanbul en route to Europe along with hordes of other White Russians fleeing the Russian civil war.2014 July 21, Ivan Watson, “Loud, anarchic, quirky: My love affair with Istanbul”, in CNN, archived from the original on 20 Feb 2026
  2. A province in Turkey.
    Synonyms:
    Byzantium, Byzantion, Constantinople

Origin of İstanbul

Borrowed from Turkish İstanbul.

Questions about İstanbul

What is İstanbul the rare spelling of?
İstanbul is the rare spelling of Istanbul.

Words near İstanbul in the dictionary

  1. Iłża
  2. Iōtō
  3. İslahiye
  4. İsmayıllı
  5. İspir
  6. İstanbul
  7. İzmir
  8. İznik
  9. j
  10. J antenna
  11. J antennas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: İstanbul (page history and authors); Istanbul (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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