Istanbul – So Good They Named It Twice

When you touch base in the core of old Istanbul (the territory that local people call 'Sultanahmet') you'll see that it's on a promontory – the ocean encompasses it on three sides. A thousand years and-a-half prior, another person saw this: the Roman ruler Constantine the Great. And in addition being the sovereign who made Christianity the official religion of the Empire, he additionally moved the capital. He manufactured another city on the shores of the Bosphoros strait, the extend of water that connections the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. He picked the promontory as the city's site since it was anything but difficult to shield. At that point he named the new town after himself. That is the sort of thing you get the opportunity to do in case you're ruler.

In any case, several hundred years after Constantine the Roman Empire broke apart. It's eastern half soldiered on, with Constantinople at its heart, for an additional thousand years until the point that it was vanquished in 1453 by the Turks. It's been a Turkish city from that point onward. They called it Istanbul.

(All things considered, it has three names – you'll regularly hear the old city alluded to as Byzantium, and its memorable domain as the Byzantine Empire. For effortlessness' purpose we should stick to Istanbul – that is the thing that the cutting edge occupants call it.)