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An ancient Greek settlement at the southern end of the Bosphorus where modern-day Istanbul, Turkey now stands. It flourished and grew throughout the Greek and Roman periods. The city was renamed Constantinopolis (q.v.) and much expanded by the fourth-century emperor, Constantine and his successors.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/520985

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
41.005902, 28.9738815

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 23977 (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- DARMC location 24604 (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Byzantion (Ancient Greek, 1200 BC - AD 640)
- Byzantium (750 BC - AD 640)
- bznt (Aramaic, 540 BC - 330 BC)

Byzantium makes connections with:

Byzantium founded by Megara (750 BC - 550 BC)
Byzantium part of (administrative) Thrace/Skudra (satrapy) (550 BC - 330 BC)

Byzantium receives connections from:

Constantinopolis succeeds Byzantium (unspecified date range)

Place type:
settlement

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Related:

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 53 A2 Byzantium

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Istanbul

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Suggested citation:
C. Foss, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Ingrid Luo, Francis Deblauwe, and Eric Kansa, 'Byzantium: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/520985> [accessed: 10 March 2025]

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