To: tejek who wrote (385789 ) 5/22/2008 8:30:26 PM From: Brumar89 Read Replies (1) | Respond to Dude, Constantine I moved the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to Constantinople. In fact that's how the city got renamed. About the same time, the Eastern Orthodox church broke with the Catholic church. Speaking Greek was considered s sign of refinement and education. I doubt the man in the street in Constantinople spoke Greek....since he was living in Turkey. Starting around 1200 BC, the west coast of Anatolia was settled by Aeolian and Ionian Greeks. The entire area was conquered by the Persian Achaemenid Empire during the 6th and 5th centuries and later fell to Alexander the Great in 334 BCE.[11] Anatolia was subsequently divided into a number of small Hellenistic kingdoms (including Bithynia, Cappadocia, Pergamum, and Pontus), all of which had succumbed to Rome by the mid-1st century BCE.In the 10th century, the Seljuks started migrating from their ancestral homelands towards the eastern regions of Anatolia , which eventually became the new homeland of Oguz Turkic tribes following the Battle of Manzikert (Malazgirt) in 1071. en.wikipedia.org
