Portal:Byzantine Empire/DYK/4

• ...that the Milion (Greek: Μίλ(λ)ιον), was a monument of Constantinople and it was the origin and start of measurement of distances for all the roads leading to the cities of the Byzantine Empire and that it had the same function which the Milliarium Aureum of Rome still has today?
• ...that Anna Komnene was born in the purple chamber of the imperial palace of Constantinople and therefore she was a porphyrogenita?