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Istambul

Istambul is the obsolete form 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

Questions about Istambul

What is Istambul the obsolete form of?
Istambul is the obsolete form of Istanbul.

Words near Istambul in the dictionary

  1. Issyk-Kul
  2. ist
  3. Ist person
  4. Istaevones
  5. Istakhr
  6. Istambul
  7. Istanbul
  8. Istanbulite
  9. Istanbulites
  10. Istanbullu
  11. Istanbullus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Istambul (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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