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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