Byzantium (;, Byzántion ; Latin: ) was an ancient Greek city, founded by Greek colonists from Megara in 657 BC and named after their king Byzas ( Greek: Βύζας, Býzas, genitive Βύζαντος, Býzantos ).

The traditional legend has it that Byzas from Megara ( a town near Athens ), founded Byzantium in 657 BC, when he sailed northeast across the Aegean Sea.

* 667 BC: Byzantium founded by Megaran colonists under Byzas.

According to tradition, the city was founded as Byzantium by Greek colonists from Megara, led by the eponymous Byzas, around 658 BC.

Byzas had consulted the Oracle at Delphi to ask where to make his new city.

In Greek legend, Byzas (, ) was the eponymous founder of Byzantium ( Greek: Βυζάντιον ), the city later known as Constantinople and Istanbul.

Byzas, son of King Nisos ( Greek Νίσος ), was a Greek colonist from the Dorian city of Megara who consulted the oracle of Apollo at Delphi.

Although the author of the Patria asserts that this wall dated to the time of Byzas, the French researcher Raymond Janin thinks it more likely that it reflects the situation after the city was rebuilt by the Spartan general Pausanias, who conquered the city in 479 BC.

Founded in the Ninth Century B.C. it was called Byzantium 200 years later when Byzas, ruler of the Megarians, expanded the settlement and named it after himself.

This son, Byzas the Megarian, in time became the founder of Byzantium and named the Golden Horn ( Greek Χρυσοκέρας ( Khrysokeras or Chrysoceras )) after his mother.

The most famous citizen of Megara in antiquity was Byzas, the legendary founder of Byzantium in the 7th century BC.

* 667 BC: Traditional date of the founding of Byzantium by Megaran colonists under Byzas.

Coinage with idealized depiction of Byzas, founder of Byzantium.

In Greek mythology, Byzas was a son of Poseidon by Keroessa.

Some sources say that Byzas was brought up by the naiad Byzia and married Phidaleia, daughter of King Barbyzos.

Like Byzas in one legend, she had her origins in Thrace.

The oldest city is Mobile, founded by French colonists.

Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for a freely settled British province in Australia.

* 1605 – The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.

Aeneas founded the city of Lavinium, named after his wife.

Their capital was Marrakesh, a city which they founded in 1062.

In 1062 he founded the city of Marrakech.

In 1080, he conquered the kingdom of Tlemcen ( in modern-day Algeria ) and founded the present city of that name, his rule extending as far east as Oran.

Remembered as a notable administrator, Afonso III founded several towns, granted the title of city to many others and reorganized public administration.

He founded the Academy of Naples under Giovanni Pontano and, for his entrance in the city in 1443, had a magnificent triumphal arch added to the main gate of Castel Nuovo.

* 1836 – The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen

Aeschylus travelled to Sicily once or twice in the 470s BC, having been invited by Hiero I of Syracuse, a major Greek city on the eastern side of the island ; and during one of these trips he produced The Women of Aetna ( in honor of the city founded by Hieron ) and restaged his Persians.

The second Abbasid caliph, Al Mansur ( 754 – 775 ) founded the city of Baghdad to act as a centre of learning, and included in its design a library-translation centre known as Bayt al-Hikma ‘ Storehouse of Wisdom ’, which continued to receive development from his heirs and was to provide a major impetus for Arabic-Persian translations of Hellenistic astrological texts.

The Islamic Golden Age was inaugurated by the middle of the 8th century by the ascension of the Abbasid Caliphate and the transfer of the capital from Damascus to the newly founded city Baghdad.

A. S. Roma was founded in the summer of 1927 when a secretary of the National Fascist Party, Italo Foschi, initiated the merger of three older Italian Football Championship clubs from the city of Rome ; Roman FC, SS Alba-Audace and Fortitudo-Pro Roma SGS.

In 1237 and 1244 two towns, Cölln and Berlin were founded during the rule of Otto and Johann, grandsons of Margrave Albert the Bear, ( later they were united into one city, Berlin ).

It was already founded at the time of the establishment of the city shortly after 1200 ; the exact date is not known.

* 1782 – The city of Rattanakosin, now known internationally as Bangkok, is founded on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River by King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.

6 km from the city is also Praglia Abbey, founded in the 11th century by Benedictine monks and rebuilt in 1496-1550.

In October 1747 a loya jirga ( grand council ) concluded near the city of Kandahar with Ahmad Shah Durrani being selected as the new leader of the Afghans, thus the Durrani dynasty was founded.

Alexandria was founded in 1836 and was chartered as a city in 1893.

However, the problem is being addressed by community organizations and city government: Trees Atlanta, a non-profit organization founded in 1985, has planted and distributed over 75, 000 shade trees in the city, while Atlanta ’ s government has awarded $ 130, 000 in grants to neighborhood groups to plant trees.

The other long established club in the city ' Os Galitos ' was founded in 1904 and water related sports such as swimming, sailing and rowing are some of its longest traditional strongest specialities, other sections in the club include chess, basketball, snooker, pool and billiards among others, but rowing is the modality in which the club has a maintained a long and proud tradition going back more than one hundred years, reaching the highest possible excellence as a club with several of its individual and team of rowers having represented Portugal Internationally and at the Olympic games with good classifications on more than a just few occasions.

It was here that he founded the new headquarters of the Communist League, and got heavily involved with the socialist German Workers ' Educational Society, who held their meetings in Great Windmill Street, Soho, central London's entertainment district.

From here, and other ports, a great Mediterranean commercial empire was founded.

The university was founded as coeducational, and President Peck stated at the opening ceremonies, " The conditions of admission shall be equal to all persons ... there shall be no invidious discrimination here against woman .... brains and heart shall have a fair chance ... " Syracuse implemented this policy with a high proportion of women students.

It was here that, in October 1850, the local physician William Penny Brookes had founded the Wenlock Olympian Games, a festival of sports and recreations that included athletics and team sports, such as cricket, football and quoits.

The Phoenicians founded here the celebrated city of Carthage.

* Samuel Oshoffa who founded the Celestial Church of Christ was born here in 1905.

In 1992, a software company called Novosoft was founded here, and its chief client was IBM.

Miletians founded the apoikia ( trading post ) of Odessos towards the end of the 7th century BC ( the earliest Greek archaeological material is dated 600 – 575 BCE ), or, according to Pseudo-Scymnus, in the time of Astyages ( here, usually 572 – 570 BCE is suggested ), within an earlier Thracian settlement.

Also located here are the largest trout fishery in Russia ( founded in 1964 ) and a breeding nursery for great apes.

John Winthrop, Jr. founded the first English settlement here in 1646, making it about the 13th town settled in Connecticut.

The dates given here are according to the work of F. M. Cross and other scholars who take 825 BC as the date of Dido ’ s flight from her brother Pygmalion, after which she founded the city of Carthage in 814 BC.

Crawford County, and much of southeast Kansas, was founded on coal mining, the Pittsburg-Weir Coalfield being located here, and is still known for mining today.

For example, in 1685 Duke John Adolphus (" Hans Adolf ") founded the new town ( Neustadt ) northwest of the town in order to settle craftsmen here and thus increase the economic might of the duchy.

Jacksonville State University was founded here in 1883.

After the Ku Klux Klan activities discussed here, however, the headquarters was moved, and the town never achieved the dominant position in Calhoun County, with Anniston, founded the next year, achieving that status instead.

A groundbreaking school for African Americans, the Lincoln Normal School, was founded here in 1867.

Carrie Nation moved here towards the end of her life and founded Hatchet Hall on Steele Street, later operated as a museum, but now closed.

* Mission San Francisco Solano (# 3 )-On July 4, 1823, Padre José Altamira founded the northernmost of California's Franciscan missions here, the only one established in California under independent Mexico.

Mother Theresa Hackelmeier ( 1827-1860 ) founded here in 1851 the Sisters of St. Francis of Oldenburg who would open numerous schools in the Midwest.

The now defunct Winona College was founded here, and the Winona Lake School of Theology was located here from 1920 to 1970.

One of America's oldest military institute founded in 1845 ; moved here in 1896.

It is also nicknamed " the Scholarship City " because Dr. Irving Fradkin founded Dollars for Scholars here in 1958.

The Perrigo company was founded here in 1887.