Constantinople
The city called Byzantium, Constantinople, or Istanbul. This city was the capital of the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire, and the city and the empire were styled after Rome. However, the city of Moscow (Muscovy) is also called New Rome, or the Third Rome, because the influence of the Byzantines modified Moscow to be much like Constantinople.
The only similarity was that both had seven hills, but even these were quite different. For Constantine his making of a new capital for the eastern part of the empire served a good propaganda tool. The city was presented as the mark of the dawn of a new era under his rule. Tittles such the second Rome, the new Rome, the eastern Rome and Alma Roma were used to glorify the undertaking. Constantine did model the new city on Rome. But all new towns were modelled on Rome in their civic area, and this did not necessarily make them look like Rome.
Constantine the Great redeveloped the city of Byzantium, named it after himself (Constantinople means city of Constantine) and designated it as the capital of the Roman Empire. This city was also given a number of honorary titles such as "The New, Second Rome,' 'Eastern Rome,' 'Alma Roma,' and 'Roma Constantinopolitana.' Later it became the capital of the eastern part of the Roman Empire
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When the Emperor Constantine the Great moved the capital of the Roman Empire, from Rome to the Ancient Greek city of Byzantium, in 330 AD, he renamed it Constantinople (city of Constantine) and made it the new capital of the Roman Empire. Because there could not be two capital cities with the same name, he called Constantinople the New Rome (Nova Roma).
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The people living in Constantinople regarded themselves as part of the Byzantine Empire, which was the continuation of the Roman Empire in the eastern Mediterranean. They often identified with the legacy of Rome and considered their city the "New Rome," emphasizing its political, cultural, and religious significance. The Byzantine citizens saw themselves as the rightful heirs to Roman traditions, governance, and civilization.
Constantinople was to be the new Rome of the Byzantine empire
Constantinople was the new capital of the eastern part of the Roman Empire which Constantine the Great had built. Constantine the Great moved the capital of the eastern part of the Roman Empire from Nicomedia (in north-western Turkey) to the nearby Byzantium, which he redeveloped, renamed Constantinople (city of Constantine) and inaugurated in 330. This new capital was given titles such as "The New, second Rome,' 'Eastern Rome,' 'Alma Roma,' and 'Roma Constantinopolitana.' Propaganda-wise the new capital symbolised the new dawn of the Roman Empire which Constantine rule would usher in.
Constantinople was given the titles of "the new, second New Rome," "Alma Roma", "Eastern Rome" and "Roma Constantinopolitana."
Constantine modelled Constantinople on Rome, taking advantage of the fact that this city had seven hills like Rome. This had a Propaganda purpose. Constantine had Byzantium redeveloped, renamed it Constantinople (City of Constantine) and designated it as the imperial capital as a symbol of the "new dawn" which his rule would usher in for the Roman Empire. Constantinople was given titles such as "The New, Second Rome,' 'Eastern Rome,' 'Alma Roma,' and 'Roma Constantinopolitana.' This "new", "second Rome" represented the beginning of a rebirth of the greatness of the empire, after a period of civil wars which was ended by Constantine winning them.