• 2.4 527–565: Constantinople in the Age of Justinian. 2.5 Survival, 565–717: Constantinople during the Byzantine Dark Ages.
  • 42. Early Days. Allegedly, the first settlement of the area which became Constantinople was a Thracian town called Lygos.
  • ^ G. Necipoĝlu "From Byzantine Constantinople to Ottoman Kostantiniyye: Creation of a Cosmopolitan Capital and Visual Culture under Sultan Mehmed II" Ex. cat.
  • Thanks to its prime strategic position, and its formidable Theodosian walls, Constantinople was also an impregnable bastion.
  • İstanbul olarak bilinmeden önce ve Anadolu'da bir Yunan yerleşim yeri olan Bizans olarak bilinen Konstantinopolis, antik dünyanın en etkili şehirlerinden biriydi.
    Bulunamadı: constantinople
  • Theodosius I was the last Roman emperor who ruled over an undivided empire (detail from the Obelisk at the Hippodrome of Constantinople.
  • May 11, 330, Constantine officially transfers the capital of the Roman Empire to the city on the Bosphorus and names it New Rome, Constantinople.
  • all the leaves are off of the oak and all of the sheep have followed the spoken word. i'm coming constantinople here i come.
  • After Valens's embarrassing defeat, the Visigoths believed Constantinople to be vulnerable and attempted to scale the walls of the city but ultimately failed.
  • While much of the city’s grandeur has long been lost, there are still many significant remains of Byzantine Constantinople.