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MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · May 11

THE DAY IN HISTORY · MAY 11

May 11 in history

330 — Constantinople founded

11 May 330 — A new Rome on the Bosporus: peninsula, harbor, and the junction of Europe and Asia. The best-defended city in the world will not fall for 1,123 years.

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