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One podcast episode worth your time.
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Today’s pick
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The Ancients
Origins of Constantinople
Tristan Hughes · 59 min
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Why it’s worth your time
How a modest Greek colony on the Bosphorus became the city that held an empire together for a thousand years.
Listen for this question
Why do some places keep mattering for millennia?
Best way to listen
With a map open, once.
After the episode
Look up why your own town was founded where it was.
Who it’s for: Anyone who has stood in an old city and wondered why it's there.
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