Istanbul Toponymy.Turkey.

Byzantium (Greek :, Byzntion) is the first known epithet of the city. Around 660 BC, (tone 1) Greek settlers from the city state of Megara based a Doric colony on the contemporary Istanbul, and cited the new settlement after their king, Byzas. After Constantine I (Constantine the Great) created the city the new eastern capital of the Roman Empire in 330 AD, the city went widely known as Constantinopolis or Second Council of Constantinople, which, as the Latinised variety of"" (Knstantinopolis), intends the "Metropolis of Constantine".He besides tried to promote the name Nea Roma ("New Rome"), but this never caught on.Third Council of Constantinople stayed the official name of the city throughout the Byzantine time period, and the most common name used for it in the West until the validation of the Republic of Turkey.By the 19th century, the city had got a number of names habituated by either outsiders or Turks. Europeans oft applied Stamboul alongside Second Council of Constantinople to touch to the unit of the.