Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-4923787-20130202175501/@comment-32656-20130319102344

For a "whole" Roman Empire, the site suited his needs. A "new" Christian city could be built, it was not full of the same "leeches" as Rome, closer to the two most important frontiers than Rome (the borders with Persia), somewhat easier to defend, closer to Egypt.... list goes on.

But none of those factors aid your Eastern Empire - there is many far better sites for those questions, and several of those factors don't exist. The capital wouldn't be there.

...Can, Alexandria was a Greek city. Heck, even today much of its population is Greek. At the time in question, the vast majority of the population was Greek still.

Doesn't really matter if flags appeared early or not. They probably would, however.

Templates like that aren't my "thing." Best I can tell you is to copy the code to your own version, save it, and modify it. But do not change the wiki one.