History of Istanbul, Early Times & Byzantine Period

• Neolithic finds in Istanbul 


• Opposite the blind people’s land 


• The city of Byzas: Byzantion 


• World’s largest medieval shipwreck collection 


• Constantine becomes the sole emperor of the Roman Empire


• Roman version of Alexander the Great 


• Believer of Christianity or used Christianity for his political propaganda? 


• Council of Nicaea 


• From a small town to the Roman capital 


• Roman, Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire? 


• Nika Revolt of 532 AD 


• Walls of Constantinople 


• Fourth Crusade 


• Partitioning of the Byzantine Empire 


• Genoese merchants