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Sykai

Ancient suburb of Byzantium

Sycae (Greek: Συκαί), later known as Justinianae (Ίουστινιάναι) and Justinianopolis (Ίουστινιανούπολις), was a town of ancient Thrace, a suburb of Byzantium-Constantinople, that was inhabited during the Roman and Byzantine empires.

Its site is located near the neighborhood of Galata in Karaköy, East Thrace (European Turkey).

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