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Constantinople: The Greek Settlement That Became World’s Greatest City
The story of Constantinople is a fascinating one that dates back millennia to when this mega-city was a small Greek town ...
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Archaeologists uncover 1,500-year-old secret rooms with mosaic walls under ancient church
Archaeologists in Istanbul have discovered the ... The rooms appear to be around 1,500 years old when the city was the capital of the Byzantine Empire and known as Constantinople.
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Centuries-old Byzantine fortress to be unearthed at dig site in western Turkey
Excavations have begun at a dig site in western Turkey to unearth vast Byzantine ... old, archeologists working on the project said on Friday. Located in what is now the small picturesque town ...
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Monemvasia: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited Castle Town
Monemvasia, on the southeastern shores of the Peloponnese, Greece is Europe's oldest continuously inhabited castle town.
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Russian Orthodox Church concerned by fate of Byzantine mosaics in Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia
The preservation of Byzantine mosaics ... Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey). It was turned into an Ottoman imperial mosque in 1453, after the fall of the Byzantine Empire, and is now a museum.