Byzantium was an ancient Greek city founded around 667 BC by colonists from Megara at the entrance to the Black Sea, on the site of what is now Istanbul's Fatih district. Defensible on nearly all sides by water, it grew into a major trading hub controlling the passage between the Mediterranean and Black Sea and remained primarily Greek speaking for over two thousand years; Emperor Constantine I refounded it as an imperial residence in 330 AD, renaming it Nova Roma and then Constantinople, and it eventually became Istanbul after the Ottoman conquest of 1453.
Facts
Founding Year Latitude41.013417 degrees north 1 Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Byzantium (Wikidata)
P571 (inception)
-0667-00-00T00:00:00Z
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 41.013417, longitude 28.983639
- In Group: Cities of Western Asia (World), Wikipedia infobox, country field
View the Source2. OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m): SRTM 90 m elevation at 41.0134,28.9836
OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m)results elevationQuote, results elevation
"elevation": 51.0
3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 41.25, 28.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 41.25, 28.75
41.25 28.75 Csa
4. GeoNames: Istanbul - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 745044Quote, cities500 record 745044
41.01384 28.94966 P PPLA TR 34 15701602 39 Europe/Istanbul
Wikidata: Byzantium
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