What are Istanbul and Constantinople?

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Istanbul was Constantinople before the conquest. Mehmed II conquered it in 1453, and it was the capital of the Ottomans for five centuries. It holds Hagia Sophia, the Suleymaniye and Topkapi palace. ¹

Disputing the count of raids and sariyas

The maghazi arithmetic disputes: Ibn Ishaq's twenty-six raids versus the twenty-seven that split Wadi'l-Qura from Khaybar; nine pitched battles common to both lists with al-Waqidi adding Wadi'l-Qura and al-Ghaba for eleven; and the sariya counts ranging from thirty-five to al-Waqidi's forty-eight (in al-Tabari's chain) to sixty-six.

What are Istanbul and Constantinople?

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Disputing the count of raids and sariyas