Byzantium

• “Penniless, Theodora became a child comic actor and prostitute in Byzantium with a racy repertoire of sexy acts (at least according to the rather hostile historian of the period, Procopius) before marrying the future emperor, Justinian.”

  The Guardian: Stella Duffy rides Theodora to victory at Cheltenham

• “Life of the Emperor who saved Byzantium from the Persians but could not fend off the Moslem advance.”

  Stromata Blog:

• “Byzantium from the Persians, which thus left the Euxine free to Athenian ships, from which the Greeks derived their chief supplies of foreign corn,”

  Ancient States and Empires

• “While Obama is spending half his time in Turkey in the new capital of Ankara, it is Istanbul, a city founded nearly 2700 years ago as Byzantium, that is more symbolically potent.”

  William Bradley: Turkey: Not the Usual Geopolitical Sandwich

• “‡ Formerly called Byzantium, then Constantinople, the city was the capital consecutively of the eastern branch of the Roman Empire, of the Byzantine Empire, and of the Ottoman Empire.”

  Istanbul

• “Cathedrals arose in the midst of the vast ruins of Imperial antiquity, here they developed strange similarities to foreign styles, domes suggesting the East, Greek motives recalling Byzantium, and details reminiscent of Syria.”

  Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1

• “Constantinople, anciently called Byzantium, and the countries over which the Greek emperors residing in that city reigned, were subdued by the powerful caliphs of Bagdad, while those of Spain and the West were endeavouring to push their conquests over the fairest portions of”

  History of the Moors of Spain

• “This city was originally called Byzantium, and was a flourishing Greek commercial center six hundred years before Christ.”

  The World War and What was Behind It Or, the Story of the Map of Europe

• “[8] An older town called Byzantium was utilized by Constantine as the basis of his new imperial city.”

  An Introduction to the History of Western Europe

• “Janos and the events which occurred during the wars between that hero, known also as Corvinus or the crow-like, and Mahommed the second, he who captured Constantinople, better known as Byzantium, before the Christian epoch.”

  Danger! and Other Stories

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