MAR 7, limerick for lovers of classic languages: Constantinopolis (Byzantium)

 a) Reprise of material posted on March 7 in previous years ...

2020: Charleston garden, creeping fig (illustrated poem)
2021: classic palindrome, sex of foxes (poem) 

2022: California excursions, Oakland (illustrated poem)
2023: lexicon of word-pairs, alliterative binomials L (wordplay)

Authors' Note: Our seer in Byzántion likely made his prediction in the early 4th century A.D.

Byzántion: Greek name for the Greek colonial city-state founded on the Bosporus in pre-Roman times; known in Latin as Byzantium, it lent its name to the subsequent Byzantine Empire

Konstantinoúpolis, and Constantinopolis: Greek and Latin names respectively for the expanded city, planned as his empire's eastern capital (Nova Roma) by Roman emperor Constantine; known in English as Constantinople

Hagia Sophia (ah-yah so-FEE-ah) Greek for Holy Wisdom; famed for its huge dome, the third iconic church built on the site served as an Eastern Orthodox cathedral from 537 A.D. until 1453, the year of conquest by the Ottoman Turks

Istanbul: capital of the Ottoman Empire, and subsequently of modern Turkey, the city's current population of 15 million (2017) makes it Europe's most populous city.

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