Istanbul Europe is the right choice for your airport transfer needs with Tourwix- There are many legends about the founding date of Istanbul. Around 650 BC according to the most famous ones. to. One of the Aegean tribes left their hometown of Megara and went in search of a new homeland under the leadership of Visas. According to the tradition of that time, before the expedition, Visas turned to the Delphic oracle and advised him to choose a place for his settlement opposite the "land of the blind". Once upon a time, after a long search, settlers came to the headland, where modern Istanbul is.
They were amazed by the fertility of the land and the unique advantages that the natural harbor - the Golden Horn Bay - provided them. On the opposite shore, they noticed the people who lived there and decided that they could not appreciate the possibilities of these places and that they should be blind because they settled there, not here. So Visas concluded that this was exactly the land the Oracle had described for him.
The Byzantine city established on this site was independent, but due to its attractive location - at the crossroads of trade routes - it was occasionally attacked. It existed for 200 years, from 74 BC. BC, the city flourished under Roman rule, but in AD 191. e., during the civil war, by order of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus, was captured and destroyed.
The Roman emperor Constantine the Great brought a new breath to this place, which decided in the 4th century AD. to. To move the capital, which has lost its importance, from Rome to the shore of the Golden Horn. In a short time the city was restored, numerous temples, palaces, baths, a hippodrome appeared here, new city walls were built and in 330 it was declared the capital of the Roman Empire. Cut out for treatment and holiday in Istanbul Europe ...
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