Located at the crossroads of Europe and Asia—the Bosporus Strait—Constantinople bestrode both a superbly defensible peninsula and a sheltered harbor, the Golden Horn.
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At the same time, the cross became the official symbol of the church —it gradually adorned religious buildings, was erected on hilltops and mountains, at crossroads and in public squares.
Jón bought the farm Egilsstaðr at the close of the 19th century because of its location when he predicted "Crossroads will be here", which proved prescient.