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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BenSi, post: 7546289, member: 95174&quot;]To narrow the subject I think you should just look at the one place that stayed constantly byzantine until the end.</p><p><br /></p><p>Constantine the Great created the city he called <b>Nova Roma</b> ( New Rome) It was a city that Constantine built very quickly, it was said it took 6 years, many of the original city sculptures were taken from Rome Italy, and suddenly reappeared in Nova Roma or as the population called it <b>Constantinople</b>. In its history other cultures gave it other names as <b>Great City of the Romans</b>, <b>Throne of the Romans</b>, <b>City of the Emperor</b> and just simple <b>The City</b>. Officially it has the name (since the 1920s) as<b> Constantinople</b> ( In to the City.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The city itself was perfectly picked location, easily defendable and a gateway of of money of ships that wished to pass its boarders. Basically the perfect location for the Roman Empires most profitable area in its outer boarders. It was said you can hear 2 dozen languages being spoken in the city.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the city itself, it was the New York of its time, bustling with life , activities, trade, the gateway from the east and west. The population during its Byzantine life was said to have reached 1,000,000 people during the rule of Justinian, the numbers are not official, no census is known, during the rule of Manuel it had dropped to 400,000 but that was a rise from the some of the previous centuries.</p><p>The city fell for the first time during a crusade, not well protected because the crusaders were thought to be allies it was conquered and stripped of all of its riches.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was recaptured 50 years later but it never had the same grandeur of its past, it fell to the Turks in 1453, a major conquest for a new Empire. The city now has the largest in Europe with over 15,000,000 people.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am hoping to visit is again this year, it will be a 10 day trip with my wife who has never seen it.</p><p>To this day it is an amazing place, here are some pics from a 2013 trip.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1302106[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1302107[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1302108[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1302109[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope this is still considered in the context of the original thread. This still still proves itself to be as cosmopolitan as it did in its earlier history as <b>Nova Roma.</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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