Tag: Byzantium

Long before it was Istanbul, this peninsula was Byzantion — a Greek colony founded in the 7th century BC at the meeting point of two seas and three winds. These posts follow that city’s long arc: from a humble Megarian outpost on the seven hills to the imperial capital of the Byzantine Empire, the seat of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and the cosmopolitan heart of medieval Constantinople. Expect stories of Armenian emperors, Greek-speaking Romans, seaside palaces like the Bukoleon, surviving sanctuaries like the Mary of the Mongols, and the Christian churches still standing across the city. Walk with us through the many names of one place that has refused, for nearly three thousand years, to be forgotten.