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- Byzantine Empire | History, Geography, Maps, Facts | Britannica
Byzantium was a melting-pot society, characterized during its earlier centuries by a degree of social mobility that belies the stereotype, often applied to it, of an immobile caste-ridden society A source of strength in the early Middle Ages, Byzantium’s central geographical position served it ill after the 10th century
- Byzantium - World History Encyclopedia
The ancient city of Byzantium was founded by Greek colonists from Megara around 657 BCE According to the historian Tacitus, it was built on the European side of the Strait of Bosporus on the order of the “god of Delphi” who said to build “opposite the land of the blind” This was in reference to the inhabitants of Chalcedon who had built their city on the eastern shore of the Strait
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