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    Which Turkish city was once called Byzantium?

    Question #45143. Asked by vpham. (Mar 11 04 5:05 PM)


    hummerh3

    		Istanbul.

    Mar 11 04, 5:35 PM
    mibmob

    		Istanbul comes from the Greek "eis ten polin" meaning "into the city" which is what everyone shouted when they got in.

    Mar 12 04, 3:20 AM
    markklein199

    		Constantine founded the city of Byzantium in 330 B.C. The name of the city was changed to Constantinople in his honor 65 years later (and then to Istanbul).

    http://www.turizm.net/turkey/history/thebyzantium.html

    To paraphrase They Might Be Giants:

    Why did Byzantium get the works?
    That's nobody's business but the Turks.

    Mar 12 04, 11:24 AM
    dino335

    		Mark means 330 AD not BC and Constantine did not found Byzantium it was already there. In 330 AD Constantine decided that it was the perfect place for the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire and made it his capital. As a Roman capital the city was greatly enlarged.

    Byzantium was an ancient Greek city-state, founded by Greek colonists from Megara in 667 BC and named after their king Byzas. The name "Byzantium" is a Latinization of the original Thracian-Greek name Byzantion.

    Mar 10 06, 8:46 AM

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