The city of Istanbul was founded by the ancient Greeks as of?

The ancient Greek city of Byzantium was founded in 657 BCE by Greek settlers from Megara. Byzantium was expanded and renamed Augusta Antonina in 196 by Roman emperor Septimius Severus. In 330, Roman emperor Constantine the Great made it the capital city of the Roman Empire, and it became known as Constantinople.

What are the laws of ancient egypy?

Why were the Anglo Saxons barbarians?

The floor plan of St. Gall, the largest known architectural plan from the High Middle Ages that was never built
The abbey of Saint Gall (in German Sankt Gallen) was founded in the year 613 in the town that today bears his name in Switzerland by an Irish monk, Gallus of Hibernia. It would be one of the main Benedictine monasteries in Europe for many centuries. It flourished under the patronage of Pepin the S
Hamburg 1945:The Germans fight fanatically to the end (vid.)
The Battle of Hamburg fought between 18 April and 3 May 1945 was one of the last of World War II, when the outcome was already decided. Nevertheless, it was given stubbornly by both sides. After crossing the Rhine the Allies began to advance rapidly into German territory with the overstretched Ge
The submarine sunk by its own torpedo, part of whose crew was able to escape from the seabed
On the night of October 24, 1944, in the last year of World War II, the submarine USS Tang was sinking during the attack on a Japanese convoy in the Taiwan Strait. Curiously, she had been hit by a torpedo of her own that made a circular trajectory and exploded astern of her. Most of the crew perishe
Operation Kreipe:when the British kidnapped a Nazi general
Following the Nazi invasion of Crete in May 1941, British and other Commonwealth forces that had been involved in the defense were evacuated to Egypt and other Allied-controlled territories. But at the same time that the evacuation was taking place, the Special Operations Directorate (SOE) introdu