Editing Constantinople (section)

===Markets===

Even before Constantinople was founded, the markets of [[Byzantion]] were mentioned first by [[Xenophon]] and then by [[Theopompus]] who wrote that Byzantians "spent their time at the market and the harbour". In [[Justinian]]'s age the ''Mese'' street running across the city from east to west was a daily market. [[Procopius]] claimed "more than 500 prostitutes" did business along the market street. [[Ibn Batutta]] who traveled to the city in 1325 wrote of the bazaars "Astanbul" in which the "majority of the artisans and salespeople in them are women".<ref name="dalby">{{Cite book |last=Dalby |first=Andrew |title=Tastes of Byzantium: The Cuisine of a Legendary Empire |publisher=I.B. Tauris |pages=61–63}}</ref>