In 1896, the Hamidian massacres began and in order to escape the fate of other Armenians, he fled Constantinople to London.

And such a world, for surely it had changed since the year when I had fled Constantinople.

Alexios had fled Constantinople on the approach of the Crusaders in 1203, but had not given up on his rights to the throne, and was determined to reclaim it.

Alexios and his brother, David, were only saved through the actions of their mother, Rusudan, who fled Constantinople.

As the riots did not subside, Justinian considered fleeing Constantinople, and Constantiolus and Mundus were assigned to guard the palace in his absence.

A small boy disappeared yesterday at play on the Bosporus"-one night they found themselves fleeing Constantinople just ahead of a mob.

It is said that Rusudan fled Constantinople with her sons, taking refuge either in Georgia or in the former Byzantine province of Pontus.

He remembered fleeing Constantinople because he had beaten their champion so quickly.

Soon however Nikulitsa fled Constantinople and rejoined Samuil's forces, who were trying to take back Servia.

Eastern Christians fleeing Constantinople, and the Greek manuscripts they carried with them, is one of the factors that prompted the literary renaissance in the West at about this time.