Usefullidiot

Two cities relatively close too each other located in the west of Turkey or what was called back in the roman days Thrace. That's prety much all i know. I'm currently reading a book called A History of Warfare and in it the author mentions these two locations as being the one area where the most battles have been fought ( total of fifteen he said). I know also that Constantinople was the old name of Istanbul, and before that it was Byzantium. I was just wondering what any of you could tell me about this place.

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