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Constantinople became the new capital in the year a.d. 312
Byzantium, renamed Constantinople.
The Byzantine Empire fell when the capital city of Constantinople, now Istanbul, was captured by the Turks in 1453. The Turks took Constantinople as their new capital, and the territories of the Byzantine Empire then became part of the Ottoman Empire.
Constantinople was originally Byzantium, which was founded in about 665 BC. It was chosen as a new capital for the Roman Empire and became Constantinople in 330 AD.
Byzantium, also known as Constantinople, currently Istanbul.
Constantinople became the new capital in the year a.d. 312
Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks and became the capital of the Ottoman Empire and the centre of trade of this empire.
Constantinople
Byzantium, renamed Constantinople.
The Byzantine Empire fell when the capital city of Constantinople, now Istanbul, was captured by the Turks in 1453. The Turks took Constantinople as their new capital, and the territories of the Byzantine Empire then became part of the Ottoman Empire.
Constantinople was originally Byzantium, which was founded in about 665 BC. It was chosen as a new capital for the Roman Empire and became Constantinople in 330 AD.
Byzantium, renamed Constantinople.
Byzantium, also known as Constantinople, currently Istanbul.
After the reign of Constantine I, Constantinople became the capital of the eastern pert of the Roman Empire. Mediolanum (Milan, in northern Italy) became the capital of the western part of the empire. Milan had been designated as the capital of the west by Diocletian (Constantine's predecessor) who had also designated Nicomedia as the capital of the east. Constantinople replaced Nicomedia as the capital of the east. The capital of the western part of the empire was moved to Ravenna (also in northern Italy) in 402.
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Byzantium, renamed Constantinople, and later became the Ottoman capital Istanbul.
The emperor Constantine I (or the Great) did not move the imperial capital of the roman Empire from Rome to Byzantium. He moved the imperial capital of the eastern part of the Roman Empire from Nicomedia (in north-western Turkey) to the nearby Byzantium, which he redeveloped and renamed after himself -- Constantinople (City of Constantine). Milan remained the imperial capital of the western part of the empire.Nicomedia and Milan had been designated as the imperial capitals of the east and west respectively by the emperor Diocletian. Rome had already ceased to be the imperial capital before Constantine.