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We have to start off with the strategic position of the city between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.

And that goes back to, as it was called, Byzantium.

We didn't actually use the name Byzantium to refer to the Eastern Roman Empire until quite recently I think it was 19th century. So

Byzantium is there in a it's got a safe harbour the the golden horn. The straits are easy to stop if you want to do it.

And so it gets chosen as an important city.

I'm not quite sure why Constantine gave up the Western Empire. Rome was

obviously in a bad way when he did so. I suppose a lot of it was falling down it had been around for a very long time

anyway he uprooted to Constantinople as his capital and it became a great city. These fabulous walls that defied

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