Constantinople became the center of the Byzantine Empire because _____________________.

Question 19 options:

A. It was geographically isolated from surrounding empires

B. The pope had made it the capital of the Christian world

C. Its location made it the crossroads of Europe and Asia

D. It was a religious center for Muslims

Constantinople was the original name of present-day Istanbul, Turkey. Until 1453, that is, in its pre-Ottoman history, Constantinople was the capital for more than a thousand years, first the Eastern Roman Empire and then the Byzantine Empire.

The beginnings of the city go back to the 7th century BC. e, that is, until the establishment of the ancient Greek settlement and the city of Byzantium. Constantinople was strategically located between the Golden Horn and the Marble Sea, at the southern mouth of the Bosphorus in the Marble Sea, at the point where Europe meets Asia.

Constantinople was very significant as an heir to ancient Rome and as the largest and richest city in Europe throughout the Middle Ages. [1] In today's Greece, right-wing parties such as the Golden Dawn organize demonstrations to commemorate the fall of the city.

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