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:''This article is for the city of Byzantium. For the story, see [[Byzantium!]] For the spaceship, see [[Byzantium (ship)]].''
'''Constantinople''' was a city located on [[Earth]], in [[Turkey]].
'''Byzantium''' was an early [[Earth]] city that later came to be known as [[Constantinople]] and Istanbul. It became part of the [[Roman Empire]].


The [[Torchwood Institute]] believed that the [[sewer]]s of [[Early human history#4th century B.C.|fourth century]] Byzantium had a [[Weevil]] population. ([[WEB]]: ''[[Torchwood website|torchwood.org.uk]]'')
In the [[Early human history#3rd century A.D.|3rd century]], [[the Doctor]] encountered [[Fenric]] in Constantinople, where he defeated him at [[chess]] and trapped him in a flask. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric]]'')


The [[First Doctor]] visited the city in [[64]] AD. ([[PDA]]: ''[[Byzantium!]]'')
During another visit (or possibly the same one), the Doctor bought a hookah, which he would later use as part of a ruse to evade the [[Chancellery Guard]] on [[Gallifrey]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'')


==Other uses of the name==
In [[1914]], the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]] visited Constantinople to locate and dispose of a malfunctioning [[Krivani]] interstellar drive. ([[ST]]: ''[[Ante Bellum]]'')
By the [[27th century]] the city of [[New Byzantium]] existed on the human colony world of [[Tairngire]]. ([[NA]]: ''[[Shadowmind]]'')  


At some point in the future, probably the [[61st century]], a [[New Byzantine Calendar]] was in use. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor's Daughter]]'')
Constantinople was later renamed '''Istanbul'''. ([[NA]]: ''[[Shadowmind]]'')
 
The ''[[Byzantium (ship)|Byzantium]]'' was a spacecraft in the [[51st century]] that was transporting a [[Weeping Angel]]; it crashed on [[Alfava Metraxis]] when its [[warp engine]]s suffered a phase shift. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'')


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Revision as of 09:47, 23 March 2011

Constantinople was a city located on Earth, in Turkey.

In the 3rd century, the Doctor encountered Fenric in Constantinople, where he defeated him at chess and trapped him in a flask. (DW: The Curse of Fenric)

During another visit (or possibly the same one), the Doctor bought a hookah, which he would later use as part of a ruse to evade the Chancellery Guard on Gallifrey. (DW: The Deadly Assassin)

In 1914, the Seventh Doctor and Ace visited Constantinople to locate and dispose of a malfunctioning Krivani interstellar drive. (ST: Ante Bellum)

Constantinople was later renamed Istanbul. (NA: Shadowmind)

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