This city contained a dome supported by four arches called the Milion that recorded distances to othercities.
This city contained a dome supported by four arches called the Milion that recorded distances to othercities. A record of the regulations concerning this city's guilds can be found in the Book of the Prefect,addressed to the eparch administrating this city. A road called the mese (MEH-say) ran through this city,which may have lost forty percent of its population in a plague in 542 CE. A gigantic cannon designed byOrban sufficed to break through this city's 60-foot-tall Theodosian Walls. This city's hippodrome featuredoccasionally-violent contests between the Blues and Greens. For 10 points, name this capital city where theNika Riots occurred during the reign of Justinian I.
This city contained a dome supported by four arches called the Milion that recorded distances to othercities.
Constantinople [or Byzantium; or Istanbul]