Containing the Blue Mosque and the Hagia Sophia cathedral, and spanning two continents, for 10 points, name this city originally named Byzantium, which served as the capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman empires.
This city's Blue and Green factions started the Nika riots. Enrico Dandalo supported the sack of this city during the Fourth Crusade, and its second revival peaked under Suleiman the Magnificent, seven decades after Mehmet II conquered it in 1453. Containing the Blue Mosque and the Hagia Sophia cathedral, and spanning two continents, for 10 points, name this city originally named Byzantium, which served as the capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman empires.
This city's Blue and Green factions started the Nika riots. Enrico Dandalo supported the sack of this city during the Fourth Crusade, and its second revival peaked under Suleiman the Magnificent, seven decades after Mehmet II conquered it in 1453.
{Constantinople} or {Istanbul} [prompt on “{Byzantium}”]