Byzantion: All Data
Byzantion is a city in Turkey. This page covers its chronology of mentions across 5,500 years of history, including capitals, battles, events and subdivisions. Part of Phersu Atlas.
1. Lists and Timelines
Istanbul: Chronology of Mentions
Note: For polities of antiquity, the listed capital or subdivision capital may also represent one or several of the most important cities of the region.
656 BC
Capital of Byzantion
512 BC
Mentioned in Event: Conquests of Darius I
497 BC
Mentioned in Event: Ionian offensive
477 BC
Mentioned in Event: Greek reconquests after the Second Persian Invasion of Greece
477 BC
Mentioned in Event: Wars of the Delian League
475 BC
Mentioned in Event: Wars of the Delian League
410 BC
Mentioned in Event: Second Phase - Deceleian War
410 BC
Mentioned in: Siege of Byzantium (411 BC), part of Second Phase - Deceleian War
407 BC
Mentioned in Event: Second Phase - Deceleian War
407 BC
Mentioned in: Siege of Byzantium (408 BC), part of Second Phase - Deceleian War
403 BC
Mentioned in Event: Second Phase - Deceleian War
386 BC
Mentioned in Event: The King's Peace / Peace of Antalcidas
354 BC
Mentioned in Event: Social War (357-355)
345 BC
Mentioned in Event: Peace of Philocrates
340 BC
Mentioned in: Siege of Byzantium (340 BC)
317 BC
Mentioned in: Battle of Byzantion
292 BC
Mentioned in Event: Consolidation of the borders after the Third War of the Diadochi
86 BC
Mentioned in Event: Campaign in Greece (First Mithridatic War)
84 BC
Mentioned in Event: Campaign in Greece (First Mithridatic War)
42 BC
Mentioned in Event: Liberators' Civil War
169 AD
Mentioned in Event: First Marcomannic War
170 AD
Mentioned in Event: First Marcomannic War
268 AD
Mentioned in Event: Gothic War (267-269)
286 AD
Mentioned in Event: Early Tetrarchic Period
294 AD
Mentioned in Event: Early Tetrarchic Period
312 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
325 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
337 AD
Mentioned in Event: Division of the Empire among the sons of Constantine the Great
337 AD
Capital of Constantius
351 AD
Mentioned in Event: Roman civil war of 350-353
353 AD
Mentioned in Event: Roman civil war of 350-353
368 AD
Mentioned in Event: Gothic War (367-369)
395 AD
Mentioned in Event: Definitive Division of the Roman Empire
395 AD
Capital of Eastern Roman Empire
610 AD
Capital of Byzantine Empire
618 AD
Mentioned in Event: Avar attack on Constantinople
626 AD
Mentioned in Event: Byzantine Counterattack (Byzantine-Sasanian War of 602-628)
626 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Constantinople (626), part of Byzantine Counterattack (Byzantine-Sasanian War of 602-628)
674 AD
Mentioned in: First Arab siege of Constantinople, part of Arab-Byzantine Wars
717 AD
Mentioned in Event: Second Arab Siege of Constantinople
717 AD
Mentioned in: Second Arab siege of Constantinople, part of Second Arab Siege of Constantinople
718 AD
Mentioned in Event: Second Arab Siege of Constantinople
813 AD
Mentioned in Event: Khan Krum's wars
813 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Constantinople (813), part of Khan Krum's wars
861 AD
Mentioned in Event: Siege of Constantinople (860)
908 AD
Mentioned in Event: Siege of Constantinople (907)
908 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Constantinople (907), part of Siege of Constantinople (907)
913 AD
Mentioned in: siege of Constantinople (913)
917 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Katasyrtai, part of Byzantine-Bulgarian War of 913-927
942 AD
Mentioned in Event: Siege of Constantinople (941)
942 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Constantinople (941), part of Siege of Constantinople (941)
1044 AD
Mentioned in Event: Rus'-Byzantine War (1043)
1147 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Constantinople (1147), part of Second Crusade
1203 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Constantinople (1203), part of Fourth Crusade
1204 AD
Mentioned in Event: Fourth Crusade
1204 AD
Mentioned in: Sack of Constantinople, part of Fourth Crusade
1204 AD
Capital of Latin Empire
1235 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Constantinople (1235), part of Bulgarian-Latin wars
1260 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Constantinople (1260)
1261 AD
Mentioned in: Reconquest of Constantinople
1422 AD
Mentioned in Event: Siege of Constantinople (1422)
1422 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Constantinople (1422), part of Siege of Constantinople (1422)
1453 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Constantinople (1453), part of Fall of Constantinople
1453 AD
Capital of Ottoman Empire
1615 AD
Mentioned in: Cossack raid on Istanbul (1615)
1620 AD
Mentioned in: Cossack raid on Istanbul (1620)
1624 AD
Mentioned in: Cossack raids on Istanbul
1905 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Villayet of Istanbul, part of Ottoman Empire
1918 AD
Mentioned in Event: French Occupation of strategic places in Turkey after WWI
1923 AD
Mentioned in Event: Treaty of Lausanne (1923)
1923 AD
Capital of Ottoman Empire
2025 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Province of Istanbul Province, part of Republic of Türkiye