{"id":7774,"date":"2008-11-30T16:45:21","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T13:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/11\/30\/history-of-istanbul\/"},"modified":"2023-04-30T13:42:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T10:42:02","slug":"history-of-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/11\/30\/history-of-istanbul\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"body\">What is now called Asian Istanbul was probably inhabited by people as early as  3000 BC. Eventually, in the 7th century, Greek colonists led by King Byzas  established the colony of Byzantium, the Greek name for a city on the Bosphorus.  Byzas chose the spot after consulting an oracle of Delphi who told him to settle  across from the &#8220;land of the blind ones.&#8221; Indeed, Byzas concluded, earlier  settlers must have been deprived of their sight to have overlooked this superb  location at the mouth of the Bosphorus strait. This proved an auspicious  decision by Byzas, as history has shown Istanbul&#8217;s location important far beyond  what these early Greek settlers might possibly have conceived. Byzas gave his  name to the city: Byzantium.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">In the early 100&#8217;s BC, it became part of the Roman Empire and in  306 AD, Emperor Constantine the Great made Byzantium capital of the entire Roman  Empire. From that point on, the city was known as Constantinople. The mid 400&#8217;s  AD was a time of enormous upheaval in the empire. Barbarians conquered the  western Roman Empire while the Eastern, also called the Byzantine Empire, kept  Constantinople as its capital. In 532 during the reign of Justinian I,  antigovernment riots destroyed the city. It was rebuilt, and outstanding  structures such as Hagia Sophia stand as monuments to the heights Byzantine  culture reached.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">Read more :\u00a0<span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.indonesiamedia.com\/2008\/12\/early\/Wisata%20Amerika\/History.htm\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is now called Asian Istanbul was probably inhabited by people as early as 3000 BC. Eventually, in the 7th century, Greek colonists led by King Byzas established the colony of Byzantium, the Greek name for a city on the Bosphorus. Byzas chose the spot after consulting an oracle of Delphi who told him to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":68135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-7774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-istanbul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}