Byzantium

There are 1517 items in Byzantium:

Capua

Capua: important ancient city southwest of Rome, modern Santa Maria di Capua Vetere.Origins Clay portrait of a man Located in the plain…

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Cilicia

Cilicia: ancient name of what is now southern Turkey. The Persian king Cyrus the Great conquered this country, and after the fall of the Achaemenid empire, Cilicia belonged to the Seleucid and Roman Empires. It was well-known for its iron…

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Cirta

MicipsaCirta: Numidian-Punic settlement, Roman city, capital of the province of Numidia, modern Constantine.Cirta Cirta today; the ancient citadel to the left Situated…

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Clupea

Aspis (Greek Ἀσπίς) or Clupea: fort and port on the Cape Bon peninsula. Clupea The hill on which the fort of Aspis…

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