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When he saw that earlier settlers had built a town on the eastern shore of the Bosphorus, he decided they must have been blind themselves to overlook the advantages of an easily defensible point across the water, and founded Byzantium there, on the site now occupied by Topkapı Palace.
The Fourth Crusade, launched in 1202 and partly inspired by Venetian jealousy of Byzantium’s trading power, became an excuse to plunder Constantinople itself.
The result is a fairly schematic narrative: The young hothead of the early Celtic Revivalist years produces lovely impracticalities until 1914, when Ireland explodes; he learns about reality, becomes a great poet of civil war, and a modernist to boot; after 1925, or thereabouts, he becomes one of those "monuments of unageing intellect" about whom he writes in "Sailing to Byzantium"--the splendid complainer of the late verse.
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.
That strategic advantage is no less important today than it was 2,500 years ago, when a band of Greeks first founded the city of Byzantium on this very spot.