Check out the Quay of Karakoy in this city, known as Constantinople during the Byzantine Empire
In 330 CE, 
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Great, the imperial city of Constantinople was for nearly a thousand years the last 
remaining outpost of the Roman (later termed Eastern Roman or Byzantine) 
Empire.