a connection between two landmasses, especially a prehistoric one that allowed humans and animals to colonize new territory before being cut off by the sea.
5/9 of the Justices must vote in favor to issue a writ of Certiorari.
The Empire changed the city's name to Istanbul, made it the capital, and turned the important church into a mosque.
When Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks, they turned the Hagia Sophia into an Imperial Mosque and renamed the city Istanbul.
