Byzantion 🇬🇷/ Constantinople 🇮🇹/ Istanbul 🇹🇷 The history of modern day Istanbul is COMPLEX. It was first settled by the Greeks around 700 BC Then by the Romans in 330 AD (It was the longest lasting Roman capital, for 1,123 years) Then it was then ‘Turkified’ by Turkish people in the 1400s. These Turkish people originated from Central Asia (Western China, Mongolia & several other countries in that region) They mixed with various groups in the region and together they built most of what Ista

May 29, 1453, on this day, The conquest of Constantinople by Mehmed the Conqueror. It was more than just a city fall. The conquest was a turning point in Turkish and Islamic history as well as world history. | Know History