Tsargrad is a Slavic name for the city or land of Constantinople (present-day Istanbul in Turkey), the capital of the Byzantine Empire. It is rendered in several ways depending on the language, for instance Old Church Slavonic Цѣсарьградъ; Church Slavonic; Царьгра̀дъ, ; South Slavic languages: Carigrad or Цариград, depending on their alphabets (or Tsarigrad as an alternative Latin transliteration of Cyrillic); ; ; ; ; also Czargrad and Tzargrad; see: Tsar.
