[Avodah] Byzantium

[Zev Sero]

David Riceman wrote:
> Ibn Ezra in Yeshayahu 34:6 s.v. "B'Votzrah" says that Constantinople is 
> less than a thousand years old.  Of course Byzantium was founded in 667 
> B.C.E., so he was off by almost a millenium.  What is his source?

I assume that he assumed it was founded by Constantine.  He certainly
did *something* to it, but from a brief look at WP I can't tell exactly
what.  He vastly expanded it, but what was its size before he started?
If he took a small village and turned it into a city, then it's fair
enough to say that its real history starts then.


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