Bosporus strait
Constantinople lay on the European side of strait called the Bosporus.
The name is bosporus
The Bosporus Strait, the Black Sea, and the Sea of Marmara surround Constantinople or Istanbul.
No. It's located on what is either called "the Bosporus" or "the Istanbul Strait". It is both the same thing, Istanbul Strait being a name less used. The city located there was of course called Constantinople only until 1453. Since then it has been called Istanbul.
Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey and dates to ancient times as Constantinople. It lies on the Bosporus Strait that connects the Sea of Marmara to the Black Sea.
Istanbul (Constantinople) links Europe and Asia. The city is situated on both sides of the Bosporus Strait, meaning it is situated in both Europe and Asia; it is like a bridge that connects the two continent.
No he really earned alot of money that was were everyone traveled throught.
Constantinople was a city, therefore it only had one location. Constantinople was on the Bosporus, the strait which separates Europe and Asia and connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea, in northwestern Turkey. It is now the Turkish city of Istanbul.
Constantinople was located between the continents of Europe and Asia. It straddled the Bosporus Strait, which separates the European side of Turkey from the Asian side.
It was able to control key trade routes between Europe and Asia.
No. Constantinople did not exist during the tome of the Persian Empire in the 6th, 5th and 4th Centuries BCE. Constantinople would eventually become the capitals of the East Roman, Byzantine, and the Ottoman Empires in succession, but was never a Persian city, even though the Persians did occupy the Bosporus Strait where Constantinople is located.