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When one speaks of Rum in the medieval imagination, the megacity that towers over all others is Constantinople, the shining heart of the intricate Conglomerate. To the Romans it was Nova Roma — the New Rome — while to the Greeks it was simply Konstantinoupolis, the megacity of Constantine.
By jojoWhen one speaks of Rum in the medieval imagination, the megacity that towers over all others is Constantinople, the shining heart of the intricate Conglomerate. To the Romans it was Nova Roma — the New Rome — while to the Greeks it was simply Konstantinoupolis, the megacity of Constantine.