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Every holy city has a founding myth. Istanbul's story begins with the legend of a sea voyage by a Greek king named Byzas, son of the sea god Poseidon, who was said to have arrived here for the first time over two and a half thousand years ago.

King Byzas went to see the Delphic Oracle and the Oracle told him, "You will build a great city opposite the blind." He was bewildered and mystified by this Delphic utterance. But anyway, he set sail, and he only understood its meaning when he sailed right down here into a Golden Horn.

So on one side he saw a Greek settlement, and on the other side he saw a perfect strategic position for a great city but with no city built there. And I'm understood immediately that they must have been blind to build it in the wrong place. He went to the right place, and he started to build.

Byzas gave his name to the city he founded and the empire it ultimately became, Byzantium. Here a metropolis was built which would itself become a legend the bridge of continents the battleground of faiths and along with Jerusalem and Rome one of the greatest holy cities in the

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In this series, Simon Sebag Montefiore traces the sacred history of Istanbul. Known as the ‘city of the world's desire,’ it's a place that has been the focus of passion for believers of three different faiths—Paganism, Christianity, and Islam —and for nearly 3,000 years its streets have been

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the battleground for some of the fiercest political and religious conflicts in history. In the first episode, Montefiore uncovers the city’s ancient Greek roots, maps its transformation into the imperial capital of a Christian empire by Emperor Constantine the Great, and reveals how ecclesiastical clashes forced Eastern and Western churches apart. A BBC Production. A BBC Production.

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