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page 1660s BC
Emperor of Japan
head of state of Japan
Byzantium
Byzantium () or Byzantion () was an ancient Greek city in classical antiquity that became known as Constantinople in late antiquity and Istanbul in modern times. The Greek name Byzantion and its Latinization Byzantium continued to be used as a name of Constantinople sporadically and to varying degrees during the thousand-year existence of the Eastern Roman Empire, which also became known by the former name of the city as the Byzantine Empire. Byzantium was colonized by Greeks from Megara in the 7th century BCE and remained primarily Greek-speaking until its conquest by the Ottoman Empire in 14
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664 BC
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663 BC
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669 BC
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665 BC
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661 BC
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Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt
Egyptian dynasty of the Late Period (664-525 BCE)
660s BC
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Chrysanthemum Throne
throne of the Emperor of Japan
Assyrian conquest of Egypt
673–663 BCE military campaign
Sack of Thebes
Assyrian plunder of Kushite Thebes