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  1. Ancient Greek city on the Bosphorus (modern
  2. Istanbul), founded as a colony of the Greek
  3. city of Megara, near Corinth, about 660 BC.
  4. In AD 330 the capital of the Roman Empire was
  5. transferred there by Constantine the Great,
  6. who renamed it Constantinople.
  7.