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Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul — down the centuries the city has been open to influences from both East and West, and this cross-fertilization of ideas has created one of the world’s liveliest, most engaging, and most hospitable cultures.
The second most charming and lively of the coast’s resorts, Amalfi was once a powerful rival to the maritime republics of Pisa and Genoa, with trading posts in the 10th and 11th centuries in Palestine, Egypt, Cyprus, Byzantium, and Tunis.
He chose Byzantium as his new capital to emphasize the break with heathen Rome.
Athens hoped to be chosen but the title of new capital went to the former Greek colonial town of Byzantium (Constantinople), now Istanbul.
Constantine the Great declared Christianity the official state religion in a.d. 313; he later boldly transferred the capital to Byzantium (Constantinople) in 324.