330 CE
The Founding of Constantinople
Constantinople · Istanbul, Türkiye · Political · Classical Antiquity
The story
The site was chosen for defence and trade: a deep natural harbour, water on three sides, and control of the strait between the Aegean and the Black Sea.
For over a thousand years the city was the largest and wealthiest in Christendom, and the reason the Roman state did not end in 476.
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1,123
years
6
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