Constantine founded the new capital of the Roman Empire in a geographically strategic point as it was in the crossroads of east and west and close to the eastern territory, which was rich in produce.
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The city of Byzantium was established (in 658 B.C.) on a bay controlling the Straits of Bosporus, by the city of Megara as part of the colonization process. In 480 B.C. it was burned by the invading forces of Darius and in 479 it was occupied by the Spartans.
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Vissarion (one of the greatest Greek scholars to relocate to Italy) wrote in 1455: "while Constantinople was standing I did not care for the collection and preservation of Greek manuscripts.
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Zagori is an area of great natural beauty and unique architecture in the Pindus Mountains in Epirus in Northwestern Greece. The area is of about 1.000 square kilometers and contains 46 villages. Zagoria villages is called by Greeks “Zagorochoria” meaning the villages behind the mountain.
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In 1989, Professor of Byzantine Studies, Helen Ahrweiler is appointed Chairman of the Cultural Centre Pompidou in Paris