https://assassinscreedwiki.accesstheanimus.com/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Database%3A_Constantinople 2026-06-05T05:11:52Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.42.3 https://assassinscreedwiki.accesstheanimus.com/index.php?title=Database:_Constantinople&diff=172869&oldid=prev 2024-02-24T17:28:52Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en-GB"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 19:28, 24 February 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l4">Line 4:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 4:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>From its earliest days, Byzantium was an isolated colony, a so-called &quot;island&quot; of Hellenic civilization in a sea of barbarian tribes, although its popular reputation as a raucous port town, full of drunk [[merchant]]s and sots, typically outshined its credentials as a locus of culture. As the playwright [[Menander]] wrote in his now-lost play, [[The Flute Girl]]: &quot;Byzantium makes all of her merchants drunkards. The whole night through we were drinking, and methinks &#039;twas very strong wine too. At any rate, I awoke with a head for four.&quot;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>From its earliest days, Byzantium was an isolated colony, a so-called &quot;island&quot; of Hellenic civilization in a sea of barbarian tribes, although its popular reputation as a raucous port town, full of drunk [[merchant]]s and sots, typically outshined its credentials as a locus of culture. As the playwright [[Menander]] wrote in his now-lost play, [[The Flute Girl]]: &quot;Byzantium makes all of her merchants drunkards. The whole night through we were drinking, and methinks &#039;twas very strong wine too. At any rate, I awoke with a head for four.&quot;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In later centuries, as Greek civilization dwindled and receded, Byzantium's inhabitants diversified and its rulers came and went in a rotating line-up of hopeful <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">shepherds - </del>[[Sparta]]ns, [[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Macedonia</del>]]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ns</del>, [[Athens|Athenians]], and [[Rome|Romans]] all took their turns lording over the small city on First Hill. Then, in 324 CE the Roman Emperor [[Constantine I|Constantine]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">- inspired </del>by a vision from God, he <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">claimed - moved </del>the capital of the [[Roman Empire]] to Byzantium and, once settled, set about rebuilding it to his strict specifications, adding grandeur and panache befitting a Roman Emperor.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In later centuries, as Greek civilization dwindled and receded, Byzantium's inhabitants diversified and its rulers came and went in a rotating line-up of hopeful <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">shepherds—</ins>[[Sparta]]ns, [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Makedonia|Macedonians</ins>]], [[Athens|Athenians]], and [[Rome|Romans]] all took their turns lording over the small city on First Hill. Then, in 324 CE the Roman Emperor [[Constantine I|Constantine]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">—inspired </ins>by a vision from <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Christianity|</ins>God<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>, he <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">claimed—moved </ins>the capital of the [[Roman Empire]] to Byzantium and, once settled, set about rebuilding it to his strict specifications, adding grandeur and panache befitting a Roman Emperor.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When construction was finished in 330 CE, he had the city rechristened Nova Roma <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Constantinopolitana - </del>"New Rome, City of Constantine". Native born city-dwellers continued to call the city Byzantium for many generations, but gradually its colloquial name "Constantinopolis" caught on, as did "New Rome", since the men who ruled the city still thought of themselves as "Romans" living in the "Eastern Roman Empire". The moniker "[[Byzantine Empire]]" is a more contemporary term that gained popularity some time after the [[Ottomans|Ottoman]] conquest of the city.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When construction was finished in 330 CE, he had the city rechristened Nova Roma <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Constantinopolitana—</ins>"New Rome, City of Constantine". Native born city-dwellers continued to call the city Byzantium for many generations, but gradually its colloquial name "Constantinopolis" caught on, as did "New Rome", since the men who ruled the city still thought of themselves as "Romans" living in the "Eastern Roman Empire". The moniker "[[Byzantine Empire]]" is a more contemporary term that gained popularity some time after the [[Ottomans|Ottoman]] conquest of the city.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For over 800 years Constantinople served as the capitol of the transformed Roman Empire, keeping alive a commonwealth that had all but withered in the West under the weight of barbarian attacks and economic hardship. Throughout the Middle Ages, Constantinople burned brightly compared to the darkness that engulfed the rest of [[Europe]], though it too suffered its share of turmoil. In 1204 the city was captured by a Latin army shortly after [[Innocent III|Pope Innocent III]] blessed the Vatican&#039;s [[Fourth Crusade|Fourth and final Christian Crusade]]. But the Latins&#039; brief tenure led to an influx of [[Venice|Venetian]] and [[Genoa|Genoese]] merchants who took up residence on the south and north side of the [[Golden Horn]], respectively.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For over 800 years Constantinople served as the capitol of the transformed Roman Empire, keeping alive a commonwealth that had all but withered in the West under the weight of barbarian attacks and economic hardship. Throughout the Middle Ages, Constantinople burned brightly compared to the darkness that engulfed the rest of [[Europe]], though it too suffered its share of turmoil. In 1204 the city was captured by a Latin army shortly after [[Innocent III|Pope Innocent III]] blessed the Vatican&#039;s [[Fourth Crusade|Fourth and final Christian Crusade]]. But the Latins&#039; brief tenure led to an influx of [[Venice|Venetian]] and [[Genoa|Genoese]] merchants who took up residence on the south and north side of the [[Golden Horn]], respectively.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1261, [[Michael VIII Palaiologos|Michael Palaiologos]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">- Greek </del>heir to the Byzantine <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">throne - marched </del>on Constantinople and won a decisive victory. But the city he had recaptured was faltering, and the Empire he now controlled possessed a mere fraction of its former land and influence. Thus began the two-hundred year decline of a once great city. And though Constantinople continued to flourish as a cultural center, thanks in large part to a healthy system of arts patronage from wealthy residents, the city's population rapidly dwindled.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1261, [[Michael VIII Palaiologos|Michael Palaiologos]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">—Greek </ins>heir to the Byzantine <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">throne—marched </ins>on Constantinople and won a decisive victory. But the city he had recaptured was faltering, and the Empire he now controlled possessed a mere fraction of its former land and influence. Thus began the two-hundred year decline of a once great city. And though Constantinople continued to flourish as a cultural center, thanks in large part to a healthy system of arts patronage from wealthy residents, the city's population rapidly dwindled.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By 1397 it was clear the city's days as the Byzantine capital were numbered. To the North, East, and South, the Ottoman Empire was expanding and gaining strength, squeezing the city like a ripe grape. The Byzantine Emperors of this era pleaded with leaders in western Europe for aid, but ongoing wars and the complicated feelings held by the Catholic west concerning their Orthodox cousins led only to a series of half-hearted gestures and weak alliances. At long last, in 1453, the invasion so many Byzantines had feared for nearly a century, came to pass. Led by Sultan [[Mehmet II]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">- Mehmet </del>"The Conqueror" as he was later <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">known - a </del>massive Ottoman army marched to the walls of Constantinople and laid siege.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By 1397 it was clear the city's days as the Byzantine capital were numbered. To the North, East, and South, the Ottoman Empire was expanding and gaining strength, squeezing the city like a ripe grape. The Byzantine Emperors of this era pleaded with leaders in western Europe for aid, but ongoing wars and the complicated feelings held by the Catholic west concerning their Orthodox cousins led only to a series of half-hearted gestures and weak alliances. At long last, in 1453, the invasion so many Byzantines had feared for nearly a century, came to pass. Led by Sultan [[Mehmet II]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">—Mehmet </ins>"The Conqueror" as he was later <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">known—a </ins>massive Ottoman army marched to the walls of Constantinople and laid siege.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>From that day forward the Ottoman Turks ruled the city, and they made it their first priority to restore the city to its former glory. With the Sultans adopting a tolerant position with respect to religion, the city became more attractive to all kinds and creeds, and over the next 100 years its population increased <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">tenfold - from </del>40,000 to 400,000. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Constantinople - now </del>called Istanbul by a large number of its <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">residents - was </del>back on the map and destined for greatness once again...</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>From that day forward the Ottoman Turks ruled the city, and they made it their first priority to restore the city to its former glory. With the Sultans adopting a tolerant position with respect to religion, the city became more attractive to all kinds and creeds, and over the next 100 years its population increased <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">tenfold—from </ins>40,000 to 400,000. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Constantinople—now </ins>called Istanbul by a large number of its <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">residents—was </ins>back on the map and destined for greatness once again...</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{DEFAULTSORT:Constantinople}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{DEFAULTSORT:Constantinople}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Database: Locations]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Database: Locations]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Animus 2.03 database entries]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Animus 2.03 database entries]]</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en-GB"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 17:01, 17 August 2019</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l6">Line 6:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 6:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In later centuries, as Greek civilization dwindled and receded, Byzantium&#039;s inhabitants diversified and its rulers came and went in a rotating line-up of hopeful shepherds - [[Sparta]]ns, [[Macedonia]]ns, [[Athens|Athenians]], and [[Rome|Romans]] all took their turns lording over the small city on First Hill. Then, in 324 CE the Roman Emperor [[Constantine I|Constantine]] - inspired by a vision from God, he claimed - moved the capital of the [[Roman Empire]] to Byzantium and, once settled, set about rebuilding it to his strict specifications, adding grandeur and panache befitting a Roman Emperor.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In later centuries, as Greek civilization dwindled and receded, Byzantium&#039;s inhabitants diversified and its rulers came and went in a rotating line-up of hopeful shepherds - [[Sparta]]ns, [[Macedonia]]ns, [[Athens|Athenians]], and [[Rome|Romans]] all took their turns lording over the small city on First Hill. Then, in 324 CE the Roman Emperor [[Constantine I|Constantine]] - inspired by a vision from God, he claimed - moved the capital of the [[Roman Empire]] to Byzantium and, once settled, set about rebuilding it to his strict specifications, adding grandeur and panache befitting a Roman Emperor.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When construction was finished in 330 CE, he had the city rechristened Nova Roma Constantinopolitana - "New Rome, City of Constantine". Native born city-dwellers continued to call the city Byzantium for many generations, but gradually its colloquial name "Constantinopolis" caught on, as did "New Rome", since the men who ruled the city still thought of themselves as "Romans" living in the "Eastern Roman Empire". The moniker "Byzantine Empire" is a more contemporary term that gained popularity some time after the [[Ottomans|Ottoman]] conquest of the city.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When construction was finished in 330 CE, he had the city rechristened Nova Roma Constantinopolitana - "New Rome, City of Constantine". Native born city-dwellers continued to call the city Byzantium for many generations, but gradually its colloquial name "Constantinopolis" caught on, as did "New Rome", since the men who ruled the city still thought of themselves as "Romans" living in the "Eastern Roman Empire". The moniker "<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Byzantine Empire<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>" is a more contemporary term that gained popularity some time after the [[Ottomans|Ottoman]] conquest of the city.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For over 800 years Constantinople served as the capitol of the transformed Roman Empire, keeping alive a commonwealth that had all but withered in the West under the weight of barbarian attacks and economic hardship. Throughout the Middle Ages, Constantinople burned brightly compared to the darkness that engulfed the rest of [[Europe]], though it too suffered its share of turmoil. In 1204 the city was captured by a Latin army shortly after [[Innocent III|Pope Innocent III]] blessed the Vatican&#039;s [[Fourth Crusade|Fourth and final Christian Crusade]]. But the Latins&#039; brief tenure led to an influx of [[Venice|Venetian]] and [[Genoa|Genoese]] merchants who took up residence on the south and north side of the [[Golden Horn]], respectively.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For over 800 years Constantinople served as the capitol of the transformed Roman Empire, keeping alive a commonwealth that had all but withered in the West under the weight of barbarian attacks and economic hardship. Throughout the Middle Ages, Constantinople burned brightly compared to the darkness that engulfed the rest of [[Europe]], though it too suffered its share of turmoil. In 1204 the city was captured by a Latin army shortly after [[Innocent III|Pope Innocent III]] blessed the Vatican&#039;s [[Fourth Crusade|Fourth and final Christian Crusade]]. But the Latins&#039; brief tenure led to an influx of [[Venice|Venetian]] and [[Genoa|Genoese]] merchants who took up residence on the south and north side of the [[Golden Horn]], respectively.</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en-GB"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 09:53, 25 February 2019</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Constantinople Database.png|thumb|250px|Constantinople]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Constantinople Database.png|thumb|250px|Constantinople]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Founded in 658 BCE on First Hill, [[Constantinople|Byzantium]] began life as a modest, walled-in city-state populated by Doric [[Greece|Greeks]]. Its founder was [[Byzas]], a soldier rumored to have been the son of [[Poseidon]] and the [[nymph]] {{Wiki|Keroessa|Keroessa}}. A devout man, Byzas had chosen the site of his new city based on a promising prophecy uttered by the [[Oracle of Apollo]] at [[Delphi]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Founded in 658 BCE on First Hill, [[Constantinople|Byzantium]] began life as a modest, walled-in city-state populated by Doric [[Greece|Greeks]]. Its founder was [[Byzas]], a soldier rumored to have been the son of [[Poseidon]] and the [[nymph]] {{Wiki|Keroessa|Keroessa}}. A devout man, Byzas had chosen the site of his new city based on a promising prophecy uttered by the [[Oracle of Apollo]] at [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sanctuary of Delphi|</ins>Delphi]].</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>From its earliest days, Byzantium was an isolated colony, a so-called &quot;island&quot; of Hellenic civilization in a sea of barbarian tribes, although its popular reputation as a raucous port town, full of drunk [[merchant]]s and sots, typically outshined its credentials as a locus of culture. As the playwright [[Menander]] wrote in his now-lost play, [[The Flute Girl]]: &quot;Byzantium makes all of her merchants drunkards. The whole night through we were drinking, and methinks &#039;twas very strong wine too. At any rate, I awoke with a head for four.&quot;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>From its earliest days, Byzantium was an isolated colony, a so-called &quot;island&quot; of Hellenic civilization in a sea of barbarian tribes, although its popular reputation as a raucous port town, full of drunk [[merchant]]s and sots, typically outshined its credentials as a locus of culture. As the playwright [[Menander]] wrote in his now-lost play, [[The Flute Girl]]: &quot;Byzantium makes all of her merchants drunkards. The whole night through we were drinking, and methinks &#039;twas very strong wine too. At any rate, I awoke with a head for four.&quot;</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en-GB"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 00:51, 16 December 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l6">Line 6:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 6:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In later centuries, as Greek civilization dwindled and receded, Byzantium&#039;s inhabitants diversified and its rulers came and went in a rotating line-up of hopeful shepherds - [[Sparta]]ns, [[Macedonia]]ns, [[Athens|Athenians]], and [[Rome|Romans]] all took their turns lording over the small city on First Hill. Then, in 324 CE the Roman Emperor [[Constantine I|Constantine]] - inspired by a vision from God, he claimed - moved the capital of the [[Roman Empire]] to Byzantium and, once settled, set about rebuilding it to his strict specifications, adding grandeur and panache befitting a Roman Emperor.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In later centuries, as Greek civilization dwindled and receded, Byzantium&#039;s inhabitants diversified and its rulers came and went in a rotating line-up of hopeful shepherds - [[Sparta]]ns, [[Macedonia]]ns, [[Athens|Athenians]], and [[Rome|Romans]] all took their turns lording over the small city on First Hill. Then, in 324 CE the Roman Emperor [[Constantine I|Constantine]] - inspired by a vision from God, he claimed - moved the capital of the [[Roman Empire]] to Byzantium and, once settled, set about rebuilding it to his strict specifications, adding grandeur and panache befitting a Roman Emperor.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When construction was finished in 330 CE, he had the city rechristened Nova Roma <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Constantiopolitina </del>- "New Rome, City of Constantine". Native born city-dwellers continued to call the city Byzantium for many generations, but gradually its colloquial name "Constantinopolis" caught on, as did "New Rome", since the men who ruled the city still thought of themselves as "Romans" living in the "Eastern Roman Empire". The moniker "Byzantine Empire" is a more contemporary term that gained popularity some time after the [[Ottomans|Ottoman]] conquest of the city.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When construction was finished in 330 CE, he had the city rechristened Nova Roma <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Constantinopolitana </ins>- "New Rome, City of Constantine". Native born city-dwellers continued to call the city Byzantium for many generations, but gradually its colloquial name "Constantinopolis" caught on, as did "New Rome", since the men who ruled the city still thought of themselves as "Romans" living in the "Eastern Roman Empire". The moniker "Byzantine Empire" is a more contemporary term that gained popularity some time after the [[Ottomans|Ottoman]] conquest of the city.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For over 800 years Constantinople served as the capitol of the transformed Roman Empire, keeping alive a commonwealth that had all but withered in the West under the weight of barbarian attacks and economic hardship. Throughout the Middle Ages, Constantinople burned brightly compared to the darkness that engulfed the rest of [[Europe]], though it too suffered its share of turmoil. In 1204 the city was captured by a Latin army shortly after <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{{Wiki</del>|Pope Innocent III<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">}} </del>blessed the Vatican's [[Fourth Crusade|Fourth and final Christian Crusade]]. But the Latins' brief tenure led to an influx of [[Venice|Venetian]] and [[Genoa|Genoese]] merchants who took up residence on the south and north side of the [[Golden Horn]], respectively.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For over 800 years Constantinople served as the capitol of the transformed Roman Empire, keeping alive a commonwealth that had all but withered in the West under the weight of barbarian attacks and economic hardship. Throughout the Middle Ages, Constantinople burned brightly compared to the darkness that engulfed the rest of [[Europe]], though it too suffered its share of turmoil. In 1204 the city was captured by a Latin army shortly after <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Innocent III</ins>|Pope Innocent III<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>blessed the Vatican's [[Fourth Crusade|Fourth and final Christian Crusade]]. But the Latins' brief tenure led to an influx of [[Venice|Venetian]] and [[Genoa|Genoese]] merchants who took up residence on the south and north side of the [[Golden Horn]], respectively.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1261, [[Michael VIII Palaiologos|Michael Palaiologos]] - Greek heir to the Byzantine throne - marched on Constantinople and won a decisive victory. But the city he had recaptured was faltering, and the Empire he now controlled possessed a mere fraction of its former land and influence. Thus began the two-hundred year decline of a once great city. And though Constantinople continued to flourish as a cultural center, thanks in large part to a healthy system of arts patronage from wealthy residents, the city&#039;s population rapidly dwindled.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1261, [[Michael VIII Palaiologos|Michael Palaiologos]] - Greek heir to the Byzantine throne - marched on Constantinople and won a decisive victory. But the city he had recaptured was faltering, and the Empire he now controlled possessed a mere fraction of its former land and influence. Thus began the two-hundred year decline of a once great city. And though Constantinople continued to flourish as a cultural center, thanks in large part to a healthy system of arts patronage from wealthy residents, the city&#039;s population rapidly dwindled.</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en-GB"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 09:09, 3 December 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Constantinople Database.png|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">right</del>|250px|Constantinople]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Constantinople Database.png|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">thumb</ins>|250px|Constantinople]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Founded in 658 BCE on First Hill, Byzantium began life as a modest, walled-in city-state populated by Doric [[Greece|Greeks]]. Its founder was [[Byzas]], a soldier rumored to have been the son of [[Poseidon]] and the [[nymph]] {{Wiki|Keroessa|Keroessa}}. A devout man, Byzas had chosen the site of his new city based on a promising prophecy uttered by the [[Oracle of Apollo]] at [[Delphi]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Founded in 658 BCE on First Hill, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Constantinople|</ins>Byzantium<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>began life as a modest, walled-in city-state populated by Doric [[Greece|Greeks]]. Its founder was [[Byzas]], a soldier rumored to have been the son of [[Poseidon]] and the [[nymph]] {{Wiki|Keroessa|Keroessa}}. A devout man, Byzas had chosen the site of his new city based on a promising prophecy uttered by the [[Oracle of Apollo]] at [[Delphi]].</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>From its earliest days, Byzantium was an isolated colony, a so-called &quot;island&quot; of Hellenic civilization in a sea of barbarian tribes, although its popular reputation as a raucous port town, full of drunk [[merchant]]s and sots, typically outshined its credentials as a locus of culture. As the playwright [[Menander]] wrote in his now-lost play, [[The Flute Girl]]: &quot;Byzantium makes all of her merchants drunkards. The whole night through we were drinking, and methinks &#039;twas very strong wine too. At any rate, I awoke with a head for four.&quot;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>From its earliest days, Byzantium was an isolated colony, a so-called &quot;island&quot; of Hellenic civilization in a sea of barbarian tribes, although its popular reputation as a raucous port town, full of drunk [[merchant]]s and sots, typically outshined its credentials as a locus of culture. As the playwright [[Menander]] wrote in his now-lost play, [[The Flute Girl]]: &quot;Byzantium makes all of her merchants drunkards. The whole night through we were drinking, and methinks &#039;twas very strong wine too. At any rate, I awoke with a head for four.&quot;</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l6">Line 6:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 6:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In later centuries, as Greek civilization dwindled and receded, Byzantium&#039;s inhabitants diversified and its rulers came and went in a rotating line-up of hopeful shepherds - [[Sparta]]ns, [[Macedonia]]ns, [[Athens|Athenians]], and [[Rome|Romans]] all took their turns lording over the small city on First Hill. Then, in 324 CE the Roman Emperor [[Constantine I|Constantine]] - inspired by a vision from God, he claimed - moved the capital of the [[Roman Empire]] to Byzantium and, once settled, set about rebuilding it to his strict specifications, adding grandeur and panache befitting a Roman Emperor.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In later centuries, as Greek civilization dwindled and receded, Byzantium&#039;s inhabitants diversified and its rulers came and went in a rotating line-up of hopeful shepherds - [[Sparta]]ns, [[Macedonia]]ns, [[Athens|Athenians]], and [[Rome|Romans]] all took their turns lording over the small city on First Hill. Then, in 324 CE the Roman Emperor [[Constantine I|Constantine]] - inspired by a vision from God, he claimed - moved the capital of the [[Roman Empire]] to Byzantium and, once settled, set about rebuilding it to his strict specifications, adding grandeur and panache befitting a Roman Emperor.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When construction was finished in 330 CE, he had the city rechristened Nova Roma Constantiopolitina - "New Rome, City of Constantine". Native born city-dwellers continued to call the city Byzantium for many generations, but gradually its colloquial name "<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Constantinople|</del>Constantinopolis<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</del>" caught on, as did "New Rome", since the men who ruled the city still thought of themselves as "Romans" living in the "Eastern Roman Empire". The moniker "Byzantine Empire" is a more contemporary term that gained popularity some time after the [[Ottomans|Ottoman]] conquest of the city.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When construction was finished in 330 CE, he had the city rechristened Nova Roma Constantiopolitina - "New Rome, City of Constantine". Native born city-dwellers continued to call the city Byzantium for many generations, but gradually its colloquial name "Constantinopolis" caught on, as did "New Rome", since the men who ruled the city still thought of themselves as "Romans" living in the "Eastern Roman Empire". The moniker "Byzantine Empire" is a more contemporary term that gained popularity some time after the [[Ottomans|Ottoman]] conquest of the city.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For over 800 years Constantinople served as the capitol of the transformed Roman Empire, keeping alive a commonwealth that had all but withered in the West under the weight of barbarian attacks and economic hardship. Throughout the Middle Ages, Constantinople burned brightly compared to the darkness that engulfed the rest of [[Europe]], though it too suffered its share of turmoil. In 1204 the city was captured by a Latin army shortly after {{Wiki|Pope Innocent III}} blessed the Vatican&#039;s [[Fourth Crusade|Fourth and final Christian Crusade]]. But the Latins&#039; brief tenure led to an influx of [[Venice|Venetian]] and [[Genoa|Genoese]] merchants who took up residence on the south and north side of the [[Golden Horn]], respectively.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For over 800 years Constantinople served as the capitol of the transformed Roman Empire, keeping alive a commonwealth that had all but withered in the West under the weight of barbarian attacks and economic hardship. Throughout the Middle Ages, Constantinople burned brightly compared to the darkness that engulfed the rest of [[Europe]], though it too suffered its share of turmoil. In 1204 the city was captured by a Latin army shortly after {{Wiki|Pope Innocent III}} blessed the Vatican&#039;s [[Fourth Crusade|Fourth and final Christian Crusade]]. But the Latins&#039; brief tenure led to an influx of [[Venice|Venetian]] and [[Genoa|Genoese]] merchants who took up residence on the south and north side of the [[Golden Horn]], respectively.</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p>Would be so nice if I&#039;d catch all them at once...</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en-GB"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 08:53, 16 September 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Constantinople Database.png|right|250px|Constantinople]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Constantinople Database.png|right|250px|Constantinople]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Founded in 658 BCE on First Hill, Byzantium began life as a modest, walled-in city-state populated by Doric [[Greece|Greeks]]. Its founder was Byzas, a soldier rumored to have been the son of [[Poseidon]] and the [[nymph]] {{Wiki|Keroessa|Keroessa}}. A devout man, Byzas had chosen the site of his new city based on a promising prophecy uttered by the [[Oracle of Apollo]] at [[Delphi]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Founded in 658 BCE on First Hill, Byzantium began life as a modest, walled-in city-state populated by Doric [[Greece|Greeks]]. Its founder was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Byzas<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>, a soldier rumored to have been the son of [[Poseidon]] and the [[nymph]] {{Wiki|Keroessa|Keroessa}}. A devout man, Byzas had chosen the site of his new city based on a promising prophecy uttered by the [[Oracle of Apollo]] at [[Delphi]].</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>From its earliest days, Byzantium was an isolated colony, a so-called &quot;island&quot; of Hellenic civilization in a sea of barbarian tribes, although its popular reputation as a raucous port town, full of drunk [[merchant]]s and sots, typically outshined its credentials as a locus of culture. As the playwright [[Menander]] wrote in his now-lost play, [[The Flute Girl]]: &quot;Byzantium makes all of her merchants drunkards. The whole night through we were drinking, and methinks &#039;twas very strong wine too. At any rate, I awoke with a head for four.&quot;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>From its earliest days, Byzantium was an isolated colony, a so-called &quot;island&quot; of Hellenic civilization in a sea of barbarian tribes, although its popular reputation as a raucous port town, full of drunk [[merchant]]s and sots, typically outshined its credentials as a locus of culture. As the playwright [[Menander]] wrote in his now-lost play, [[The Flute Girl]]: &quot;Byzantium makes all of her merchants drunkards. The whole night through we were drinking, and methinks &#039;twas very strong wine too. At any rate, I awoke with a head for four.&quot;</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en-GB"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 08:49, 16 September 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l10">Line 10:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 10:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For over 800 years Constantinople served as the capitol of the transformed Roman Empire, keeping alive a commonwealth that had all but withered in the West under the weight of barbarian attacks and economic hardship. Throughout the Middle Ages, Constantinople burned brightly compared to the darkness that engulfed the rest of [[Europe]], though it too suffered its share of turmoil. In 1204 the city was captured by a Latin army shortly after {{Wiki|Pope Innocent III}} blessed the Vatican&#039;s [[Fourth Crusade|Fourth and final Christian Crusade]]. But the Latins&#039; brief tenure led to an influx of [[Venice|Venetian]] and [[Genoa|Genoese]] merchants who took up residence on the south and north side of the [[Golden Horn]], respectively.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For over 800 years Constantinople served as the capitol of the transformed Roman Empire, keeping alive a commonwealth that had all but withered in the West under the weight of barbarian attacks and economic hardship. Throughout the Middle Ages, Constantinople burned brightly compared to the darkness that engulfed the rest of [[Europe]], though it too suffered its share of turmoil. In 1204 the city was captured by a Latin army shortly after {{Wiki|Pope Innocent III}} blessed the Vatican&#039;s [[Fourth Crusade|Fourth and final Christian Crusade]]. But the Latins&#039; brief tenure led to an influx of [[Venice|Venetian]] and [[Genoa|Genoese]] merchants who took up residence on the south and north side of the [[Golden Horn]], respectively.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1261, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{{Wiki|</del>Michael VIII Palaiologos|Michael Palaiologos<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">}} </del>- Greek heir to the Byzantine throne - marched on Constantinople and won a decisive victory. But the city he had recaptured was faltering, and the Empire he now controlled possessed a mere fraction of its former land and influence. Thus began the two-hundred year decline of a once great city. And though Constantinople continued to flourish as a cultural center, thanks in large part to a healthy system of arts patronage from wealthy residents, the city's population rapidly dwindled.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1261, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Michael VIII Palaiologos|Michael Palaiologos<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>- Greek heir to the Byzantine throne - marched on Constantinople and won a decisive victory. But the city he had recaptured was faltering, and the Empire he now controlled possessed a mere fraction of its former land and influence. Thus began the two-hundred year decline of a once great city. And though Constantinople continued to flourish as a cultural center, thanks in large part to a healthy system of arts patronage from wealthy residents, the city's population rapidly dwindled.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By 1397 it was clear the city&#039;s days as the Byzantine capital were numbered. To the North, East, and South, the Ottoman Empire was expanding and gaining strength, squeezing the city like a ripe grape. The Byzantine Emperors of this era pleaded with leaders in western Europe for aid, but ongoing wars and the complicated feelings held by the Catholic west concerning their Orthodox cousins led only to a series of half-hearted gestures and weak alliances. At long last, in 1453, the invasion so many Byzantines had feared for nearly a century, came to pass. Led by Sultan [[Mehmet II]] - Mehmet &quot;The Conqueror&quot; as he was later known - a massive Ottoman army marched to the walls of Constantinople and laid siege.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By 1397 it was clear the city&#039;s days as the Byzantine capital were numbered. To the North, East, and South, the Ottoman Empire was expanding and gaining strength, squeezing the city like a ripe grape. The Byzantine Emperors of this era pleaded with leaders in western Europe for aid, but ongoing wars and the complicated feelings held by the Catholic west concerning their Orthodox cousins led only to a series of half-hearted gestures and weak alliances. At long last, in 1453, the invasion so many Byzantines had feared for nearly a century, came to pass. Led by Sultan [[Mehmet II]] - Mehmet &quot;The Conqueror&quot; as he was later known - a massive Ottoman army marched to the walls of Constantinople and laid siege.</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en-GB"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 08:22, 16 September 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Constantinople Database.png|right|250px|Constantinople]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Constantinople Database.png|right|250px|Constantinople]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Founded in 658 BCE on First Hill, Byzantium began life as a modest, walled-in city-state populated by Doric [[Greece|Greeks]]. Its founder was Byzas, a soldier rumored to have been the son of Poseidon and the nymph Keroessa. A devout man, Byzas had chosen the site of his new city based on a promising prophecy uttered by the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Founded in 658 BCE on First Hill, Byzantium began life as a modest, walled-in city-state populated by Doric [[Greece|Greeks]]. Its founder was Byzas, a soldier rumored to have been the son of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Poseidon<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>and the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>nymph<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] {{Wiki|</ins>Keroessa<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|Keroessa}}</ins>. A devout man, Byzas had chosen the site of his new city based on a promising prophecy uttered by the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Oracle of Apollo<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>at <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Delphi<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>From its earliest days, Byzantium was an isolated colony, a so-called "island" of Hellenic civilization in a sea of barbarian tribes, although its popular reputation as a raucous port town, full of drunk <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">merchants </del>and sots, typically outshined its credentials as a locus of culture. As the playwright [[Menander ]] wrote in his now-lost play, [[The Flute Girl]]: "Byzantium makes all of her merchants drunkards. The whole night through we were drinking, and methinks 'twas very strong wine too. At any rate, I awoke with a head for four."</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>From its earliest days, Byzantium was an isolated colony, a so-called "island" of Hellenic civilization in a sea of barbarian tribes, although its popular reputation as a raucous port town, full of drunk <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[merchant]]s </ins>and sots, typically outshined its credentials as a locus of culture. As the playwright [[Menander]] wrote in his now-lost play, [[The Flute Girl]]: "Byzantium makes all of her merchants drunkards. The whole night through we were drinking, and methinks 'twas very strong wine too. At any rate, I awoke with a head for four."</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In later centuries, as Greek civilization dwindled and receded, Byzantium's inhabitants diversified and its rulers came and went in a rotating line-up of hopeful shepherds - <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Spartans</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Macedonians</del>, [[Athens|Athenians]], and [[Rome|Romans]] all took their turns lording over the small city on First Hill. Then, in 324 CE the Roman Emperor [[Constantine I|Constantine]] - inspired by a vision from God, he claimed - moved the capital of the [[Roman Empire]] to Byzantium and, once settled, set about rebuilding it to his strict specifications, adding grandeur and panache befitting a Roman Emperor.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In later centuries, as Greek civilization dwindled and receded, Byzantium's inhabitants diversified and its rulers came and went in a rotating line-up of hopeful shepherds - <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Sparta]]ns</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Macedonia]]ns</ins>, [[Athens|Athenians]], and [[Rome|Romans]] all took their turns lording over the small city on First Hill. Then, in 324 CE the Roman Emperor [[Constantine I|Constantine]] - inspired by a vision from God, he claimed - moved the capital of the [[Roman Empire]] to Byzantium and, once settled, set about rebuilding it to his strict specifications, adding grandeur and panache befitting a Roman Emperor.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When construction was finished in 330 CE, he had the city rechristened Nova Roma Constantiopolitina - &quot;New Rome, City of Constantine&quot;. Native born city-dwellers continued to call the city Byzantium for many generations, but gradually its colloquial name &quot;[[Constantinople|Constantinopolis]]&quot; caught on, as did &quot;New Rome&quot;, since the men who ruled the city still thought of themselves as &quot;Romans&quot; living in the &quot;Eastern Roman Empire&quot;. The moniker &quot;Byzantine Empire&quot; is a more contemporary term that gained popularity some time after the [[Ottomans|Ottoman]] conquest of the city.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When construction was finished in 330 CE, he had the city rechristened Nova Roma Constantiopolitina - &quot;New Rome, City of Constantine&quot;. Native born city-dwellers continued to call the city Byzantium for many generations, but gradually its colloquial name &quot;[[Constantinople|Constantinopolis]]&quot; caught on, as did &quot;New Rome&quot;, since the men who ruled the city still thought of themselves as &quot;Romans&quot; living in the &quot;Eastern Roman Empire&quot;. The moniker &quot;Byzantine Empire&quot; is a more contemporary term that gained popularity some time after the [[Ottomans|Ottoman]] conquest of the city.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For over 800 years Constantinople served as the capitol of the transformed Roman Empire, keeping alive a commonwealth that had all but withered in the West under the weight of barbarian attacks and economic hardship. Throughout the Middle Ages, Constantinople burned brightly compared to the darkness that engulfed the rest of [[Europe]], though it too suffered its share of turmoil. In 1204 the city was captured by a Latin army shortly after Pope Innocent III blessed the Vatican's [[Fourth Crusade|Fourth and final Christian Crusade]]. But the Latins' brief tenure led to an influx of [[Venice|Venetian]] and [[Genoa|Genoese]] merchants who took up residence on the south and north side of the [[Golden Horn]], respectively.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For over 800 years Constantinople served as the capitol of the transformed Roman Empire, keeping alive a commonwealth that had all but withered in the West under the weight of barbarian attacks and economic hardship. Throughout the Middle Ages, Constantinople burned brightly compared to the darkness that engulfed the rest of [[Europe]], though it too suffered its share of turmoil. In 1204 the city was captured by a Latin army shortly after <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{{Wiki|</ins>Pope Innocent III<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">}} </ins>blessed the Vatican's [[Fourth Crusade|Fourth and final Christian Crusade]]. But the Latins' brief tenure led to an influx of [[Venice|Venetian]] and [[Genoa|Genoese]] merchants who took up residence on the south and north side of the [[Golden Horn]], respectively.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1261, Michael Palaiologos - Greek heir to the Byzantine throne - marched on Constantinople and won a decisive victory. But the city he had recaptured was faltering, and the Empire he now controlled possessed a mere fraction of its former land and influence. Thus began the two-hundred year decline of a once great city. And though Constantinople continued to flourish as a cultural center, thanks in large part to a healthy system of arts patronage from wealthy residents, the city's population rapidly dwindled.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1261, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{{Wiki|</ins>Michael <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">VIII </ins>Palaiologos<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|Michael Palaiologos}} </ins>- Greek heir to the Byzantine throne - marched on Constantinople and won a decisive victory. But the city he had recaptured was faltering, and the Empire he now controlled possessed a mere fraction of its former land and influence. Thus began the two-hundred year decline of a once great city. And though Constantinople continued to flourish as a cultural center, thanks in large part to a healthy system of arts patronage from wealthy residents, the city's population rapidly dwindled.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By 1397 it was clear the city&#039;s days as the Byzantine capital were numbered. To the North, East, and South, the Ottoman Empire was expanding and gaining strength, squeezing the city like a ripe grape. The Byzantine Emperors of this era pleaded with leaders in western Europe for aid, but ongoing wars and the complicated feelings held by the Catholic west concerning their Orthodox cousins led only to a series of half-hearted gestures and weak alliances. At long last, in 1453, the invasion so many Byzantines had feared for nearly a century, came to pass. Led by Sultan [[Mehmet II]] - Mehmet &quot;The Conqueror&quot; as he was later known - a massive Ottoman army marched to the walls of Constantinople and laid siege.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By 1397 it was clear the city&#039;s days as the Byzantine capital were numbered. To the North, East, and South, the Ottoman Empire was expanding and gaining strength, squeezing the city like a ripe grape. The Byzantine Emperors of this era pleaded with leaders in western Europe for aid, but ongoing wars and the complicated feelings held by the Catholic west concerning their Orthodox cousins led only to a series of half-hearted gestures and weak alliances. At long last, in 1453, the invasion so many Byzantines had feared for nearly a century, came to pass. Led by Sultan [[Mehmet II]] - Mehmet &quot;The Conqueror&quot; as he was later known - a massive Ottoman army marched to the walls of Constantinople and laid siege.</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en-GB"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 01:43, 24 January 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l2">Line 2:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 2:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Founded in 658 BCE on First Hill, Byzantium began life as a modest, walled-in city-state populated by Doric [[Greece|Greeks]]. Its founder was Byzas, a soldier rumored to have been the son of Poseidon and the nymph Keroessa. A devout man, Byzas had chosen the site of his new city based on a promising prophecy uttered by the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Founded in 658 BCE on First Hill, Byzantium began life as a modest, walled-in city-state populated by Doric [[Greece|Greeks]]. Its founder was Byzas, a soldier rumored to have been the son of Poseidon and the nymph Keroessa. A devout man, Byzas had chosen the site of his new city based on a promising prophecy uttered by the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>From its earliest days, Byzantium was an isolated colony, a so-called "island" of Hellenic civilization in a sea of barbarian tribes, although its popular reputation as a raucous port town, full of drunk merchants and sots, typically outshined its credentials as a locus of culture. As the playwright Menander wrote in his now-lost play, The Flute Girl: "Byzantium makes all of her merchants drunkards. The whole night through we were drinking, and methinks 'twas very strong wine too. At any rate, I awoke with a head for four."</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>From its earliest days, Byzantium was an isolated colony, a so-called "island" of Hellenic civilization in a sea of barbarian tribes, although its popular reputation as a raucous port town, full of drunk merchants and sots, typically outshined its credentials as a locus of culture. As the playwright <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Menander <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>wrote in his now-lost play, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>The Flute Girl<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>: "Byzantium makes all of her merchants drunkards. The whole night through we were drinking, and methinks 'twas very strong wine too. At any rate, I awoke with a head for four."</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In later centuries, as Greek civilization dwindled and receded, Byzantium&#039;s inhabitants diversified and its rulers came and went in a rotating line-up of hopeful shepherds - Spartans, Macedonians, [[Athens|Athenians]], and [[Rome|Romans]] all took their turns lording over the small city on First Hill. Then, in 324 CE the Roman Emperor [[Constantine I|Constantine]] - inspired by a vision from God, he claimed - moved the capital of the [[Roman Empire]] to Byzantium and, once settled, set about rebuilding it to his strict specifications, adding grandeur and panache befitting a Roman Emperor.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In later centuries, as Greek civilization dwindled and receded, Byzantium&#039;s inhabitants diversified and its rulers came and went in a rotating line-up of hopeful shepherds - Spartans, Macedonians, [[Athens|Athenians]], and [[Rome|Romans]] all took their turns lording over the small city on First Hill. Then, in 324 CE the Roman Emperor [[Constantine I|Constantine]] - inspired by a vision from God, he claimed - moved the capital of the [[Roman Empire]] to Byzantium and, once settled, set about rebuilding it to his strict specifications, adding grandeur and panache befitting a Roman Emperor.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l10">Line 10:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 10:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For over 800 years Constantinople served as the capitol of the transformed Roman Empire, keeping alive a commonwealth that had all but withered in the West under the weight of barbarian attacks and economic hardship. Throughout the Middle Ages, Constantinople burned brightly compared to the darkness that engulfed the rest of [[Europe]], though it too suffered its share of turmoil. In 1204 the city was captured by a Latin army shortly after Pope Innocent III blessed the Vatican&#039;s [[Fourth Crusade|Fourth and final Christian Crusade]]. But the Latins&#039; brief tenure led to an influx of [[Venice|Venetian]] and [[Genoa|Genoese]] merchants who took up residence on the south and north side of the [[Golden Horn]], respectively.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For over 800 years Constantinople served as the capitol of the transformed Roman Empire, keeping alive a commonwealth that had all but withered in the West under the weight of barbarian attacks and economic hardship. Throughout the Middle Ages, Constantinople burned brightly compared to the darkness that engulfed the rest of [[Europe]], though it too suffered its share of turmoil. In 1204 the city was captured by a Latin army shortly after Pope Innocent III blessed the Vatican&#039;s [[Fourth Crusade|Fourth and final Christian Crusade]]. But the Latins&#039; brief tenure led to an influx of [[Venice|Venetian]] and [[Genoa|Genoese]] merchants who took up residence on the south and north side of the [[Golden Horn]], respectively.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1261, Michael Palaiologos - Greek heir to the Byzantine throne - marched on Constantinople and won a decisive victory. But the city he had recaptured was faltering, and the Empire he now controlled possessed a mere fraction of its former land and influence. Thus began the two-hundred year decline of a once great city. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </del>though Constantinople continued to flourish as a cultural center, thanks in large part to a healthy system of arts patronage from wealthy residents, the city's population rapidly dwindled.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1261, Michael Palaiologos - Greek heir to the Byzantine throne - marched on Constantinople and won a decisive victory. But the city he had recaptured was faltering, and the Empire he now controlled possessed a mere fraction of its former land and influence. Thus began the two-hundred year decline of a once great city. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">And </ins>though Constantinople continued to flourish as a cultural center, thanks in large part to a healthy system of arts patronage from wealthy residents, the city's population rapidly dwindled.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By 1397 it was clear the city's days as the Byzantine capital were numbered. To the North, East, and South, the Ottoman Empire was expanding and gaining strength, squeezing the city like a ripe grape. The Byzantine Emperors of this <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ear </del>pleaded with leaders in western Europe for aid, but ongoing wars and the complicated feelings held by the Catholic west concerning their Orthodox cousins led only to a series of half-hearted gestures and weak alliances. At long last, in 1453, the invasion so many Byzantines had feared for nearly a century, came to pass. Led by Sultan [[Mehmet II]] - Mehmet "The Conqueror" as he was later known - a massive Ottoman army marched to the walls of Constantinople and laid siege.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By 1397 it was clear the city's days as the Byzantine capital were numbered. To the North, East, and South, the Ottoman Empire was expanding and gaining strength, squeezing the city like a ripe grape. The Byzantine Emperors of this <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">era </ins>pleaded with leaders in western Europe for aid, but ongoing wars and the complicated feelings held by the Catholic west concerning their Orthodox cousins led only to a series of half-hearted gestures and weak alliances. At long last, in 1453, the invasion so many Byzantines had feared for nearly a century, came to pass. Led by Sultan [[Mehmet II]] - Mehmet "The Conqueror" as he was later known - a massive Ottoman army marched to the walls of Constantinople and laid siege.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>From that day forward the Ottoman Turks ruled the city, and they made it their first priority to restore the city to its former glory. With the Sultans adopting a tolerant position with respect to religion, the city became more attractive to all kinds and creeds, and over the next 100 years its population increased tenfold - from 40,000 to 400,000. Constantinople - now called Istanbul by a large number of its residents - was back on the map and destined for greatness once again...</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>From that day forward the Ottoman Turks ruled the city, and they made it their first priority to restore the city to its former glory. With the Sultans adopting a tolerant position with respect to religion, the city became more attractive to all kinds and creeds, and over the next 100 years its population increased tenfold - from 40,000 to 400,000. Constantinople - now called Istanbul by a large number of its residents - was back on the map and destined for greatness once again...</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en-GB"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 16:52, 31 May 2016</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{{Edit|Database/Locations (ACR):Constantinople|Text=Edit this tab}}</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Constantinople Database.png|right|250px|Constantinople]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Constantinople Database.png|right|250px|Constantinople]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Founded in 658 BCE on First Hill, Byzantium began life as a modest, walled-in city-state populated by Doric [[Greece|Greeks]]. Its founder was Byzas, a soldier rumored to have been the son of Poseidon and the nymph Keroessa. A devout man, Byzas had chosen the site of his new city based on a promising prophecy uttered by the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Founded in 658 BCE on First Hill, Byzantium began life as a modest, walled-in city-state populated by Doric [[Greece|Greeks]]. Its founder was Byzas, a soldier rumored to have been the son of Poseidon and the nymph Keroessa. A devout man, Byzas had chosen the site of his new city based on a promising prophecy uttered by the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi.</div></td></tr> </table>

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