The City Bridging Two Worlds

<p>Paying homage to its proximity to the sea, the Greeks founded the seven-hilled city and named it Byzantium after a son of Poseidon. The city got renamed in 330 AD, when Emperor Constantine for strategic, religious, bureaucratic, and egotistical reasons made it the capital of the Roman empire. The city became an economic center as trade flourished and it was connected to the Silk Road and Mediteranean Sea. The Hippodrome, an oblong Colosseum-like sporting arena, was expanded and hosted popular chariot races as well as monuments from all corners of the Roman Empire. Constantinople would survive the collapse of Rome and become the center of the Byzantine Empire, although its Greek-speaking citizens continued to call themselves Romans and believed they were inheritors of the greatness.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@wscudder/the-city-bridging-two-worlds-bced68c80e46"><strong>Visit Now</strong></a></p>