Historia Nova
Constantinople (Istanbul)
c. 460 CE–c. 520 CE · Constantinople (Istanbul)
Zosimus (active around the late 5th to early 6th century CE) was a Greek historian, author of the New History, which narrates the decline of the Roman Empire up to the early 5th century CE. Writing from a pagan perspective, he attributed Rome's decline in part to the abandonment of the traditional gods, making his account a distinctive counterpoint to Christian historians of his age.
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Major post-1492 Sephardi center under Ottoman protection. Home of R. Yehudah Rosanes (Mishneh L'Melech) and many other Acharonim.
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