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What was the original Greek name for Constantinople? It was the first name of that city, under the Greeks?

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raketka [301]2 years ago

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What was the original Greek name for Constantinople?

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Byzantium

This is because the city had been called by several names over the centuries. Its original name was Lygos, probably a Thracian word, and then Byzantium when it became a Greek trading town. The Roman Emperor Septimus Severus renamed it Augusta Antonia after his son Antonius.

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