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Close ✕Constantinople
Founded as the Greek colony of Byzantion around 660 BCE, refounded by Constantine I and dedicated in 330 CE as the eastern imperial capital.
41.0, 29.0 · approximate · c. 660 BCE - present
On the world
- A place in: Silk Road · 9 places
- Joined to: Antioch on the Orontes — Constantinople · 2 places
- A place in: How Belief Travelled · 8 places
- A place in: Roman Empire · 7 places
- A place in: Architecture Through Time · 16 places
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Connections · 3 of 4
- is connects to of Antioch on the Orontes — Antioch transferred overland goods to Mediterranean shipping via Seleucia Pieria; Constantinople was the other great terminus, reached by sea and by the Anatolian land routes.
- is located in of Hagia Sophia, Constantinople / Istanbul — The church was built as the cathedral of the imperial capital and stands in what is now the Sultanahmet district of Istanbul.
- is superseded of Istanbul — The same settlement on the Bosphorus: the city the 1883 service was advertised to reach as Constantinople was officially renamed Istanbul in 1930, and the corpus holds the earlier identity separately.
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