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Hiftorical Ol>Jervations relating to 

 Conftantinoplt. By the Rever^ 

 end and Learned Tho. Smith, 

 5). "D. Fellow of Magd. Coll. 

 Oxon. and of the Royal Soci- 

 ety. 



COnfiantinopley formerly Byz^amium] was 

 a by Confiamine the Great, called fo af- 

 ter his own Name, who being mightily pleaf- 

 ed with the beautiful and advantagious li- 

 tuation of the Place between two Seas, and 

 defended by narrow Streights on both Cdes^ 

 removed the Seat of the Empire hither, and 

 laid the foundation of its future Splendor 

 and Greatnefs. It was alfo by a h fpecial 

 Edid or Law of the fame Emperor, which 

 he caufed to be engraven on a Marble Pil- 

 lar, placed near his own Statue on Horfe- 

 back, in one of the Piazza's of his new built 

 City called Strategium^ where tlje Soldiers u- 



a Kctrd T iTcovvyLov rii/ti^ rroKiv* So the Emjieror Con- 

 ftantine in a Letter to Eufebius, de vita Conftantini. 



4. ap. 36. & apud Theodoritum Hiftor. Ecclef. 

 ilb. I* cap. 16. V. etiam Socrat. Scholaft. Hift, EcckC 

 //i. I . cap» 16. 



b V. Socratem ibidem; Et Theophanem in Chro- 

 npgraphia XXV, anno Conftantini* 



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