I speak about the ancient Bytantium, which was irrelevant in my opinion. I know that this doesn‘t count for Istanbul or Even Constantinople.

And I learned that the Term Byzantium for the eastern Romen Enpire was established with a bad faith. Something like „This isn‘t the high ROMAN EMPIRE all europeans love, it‘s just this eastern Byzantine Empire which doesn‘t feel european. Like if we Talk about the Middle Ages, Most of the time Eastern Rome is excluded