Byzantium Ancient Greece Map
Road network and some other details based on dumbarton oaks papers 54.
Byzantium ancient greece map. This was in reference to the inhabitants of chalcedon who had built their city on the eastern shore of the strait. A celebrated city of thrace on the shore of the thracian. Greece was raided in macedonia in 479 and 482 by the ostrogoths under their king theodoric the great 493 526. Ancient byzantium was less important than chalcedon in the early roman empire although it flourished after rome offered protection to the people there.
The bulgars also raided thrace and the rest of northern greece in 540 and on repeated other occasions. The ancient city of byzantium was founded by greek colonists from megara around 657 bce. Data on many churches especially unidentified ones taken from the university of new york s the byzantine churches of istanbul project. It is also basically to the north of greece.
Map of the roman empire byzantium. Byzantium was colonized by the greeks from megara in 657 bc and remained primarily greek speaking. The west side was considered far more fertile and better suited for agriculture although the city. Byzantium b ɪ ˈ z æ n t i ə m ʃ ə m or byzantion.
The black sea is to the east of most of greece. 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. These continuing bulgar invasions required the byzantine empire to build a defensive wall called the anastasian wall that extended for some thirty 30 miles or more from the city of selymbria now silivri to the black sea the huns and bulgars raided greece in 559 until. Ancient byzantium modern name is constantinople an istanbul greek city.
Later in the 4th century ad constantinopolis was made the capital of the eastern roman empire by constantine. At the tip of greece on this map near the southeastern shore of the black sea you can see byzantium or constantinople after emperor constantine set up his city there colchis where the mythological argonauts went to fetch the golden fleece and where the witch medea was born is along the black sea on its eastern side. Byzantium o 5 on the map.