Byzantium: A Thousand-Year-Old Empire Byzantium or Byzantion was an ancient Greek colony founded in 667 BC by Dorian colonists who came from Megara, a city-state near Athens. The city of Byzantium, nowadays the Turkish city of Istanbul, took its name from the founder and leader of the expedition, Byzas, son of Megara’s King Nisos. Byzas,
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