1 jul 667 año aC - Byzantium is founded

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Byzantium was an ancient Greek city in classical antiquity that became known as Constantinople in late antiquity and is now commonly known as Istanbul.
The Greek name Byzantion and its Latinization Byzantium continued to be used as a name of Constantinople sporadically and to varying degrees during the thousand year existence of the Byzantine Empire.
Byzantium was colonized by the Greeks from Megara in 657 BC, and remained primarily Greek-speaking until its conquest by the Ottoman Empire in AD 1453.

The year 667 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.
In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 87 Ab urbe condita .
The denomination 667 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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