Multiple choice general knowledge history

Which modern day city was once called as Byzantium?

  1. Instanbul

  2. Athens

  3. Tehran

  4. Rome
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Byzantium was renamed Constantinople in 330 CE when it became the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. After the Ottoman conquest in 1453, the city's name was changed to Istanbul, which remains its modern name. The city straddles both Europe and Asia across the Bosporus Strait.

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