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Constantine's new capital is Nova Roma or "New Rome".
Constantine's new capital is Nova Roma or "New Rome".
The Roman capital was not moved to Constantinople. What Constantine the Great did was to move the imperial capital of the eastern part of the empire from Nicomedia (in northeastern Turkey) to the nearby Byzantium, redeveloped it and renamed it Constantinople. Milan remained the imperial capital of the western part the Roman Empire. An imperial capital in the west and one in the east had been established by emperor Diocletian not long before Constantine's rule. The new imperial capitals were created to bring imperial administration closer to the troubled frontiers of the empire than Rome. Rome became the nominal capital of the empire.
Constantine built the city of Constantinople as the new capital.
Constantine the Great did not do anything to the capital of Rome. He create a new capital for the Roman Empire. He designated Byzantium as his imperial capital, redeveloped, renamed it after himself (Constantinople, which means City of Constantine) and inaugurated it in 300.
Constantine the Great. The new capital city Byzantium was renamed Constantinople after him.
Constantine the Great ruled the Roman Empire. In his days the empire had an imperial capital in the west, Milan, and an imperial capital in the east, Nicomedia (in northwestern Turkey. Constantine moved the capital of the east from Nicomedia to Constantinople.
Constantine I moved the capital of the eastern part of the empire from Nicodemia to nearby Byzantium, which was renamed Constantinople. Nicomedia was associated with Diocletian, the emperor which established this city as capital and who unleashed the Great Persecution of Christians which had been very unpopular. Moreover, Constantine supported Christianity. When Constantine I became sole emperor, he wanted to built a new capital to disentangle the capital of the east from Diocletian's past, for personal glory and for his penchant for propaganda. His new capital was a mark of the new dawn his rule would bring about.
The Emperor Constantine the Great (also known as Constantine I) moved the capital of the old Roman Empire to the Ancient Greek city in the East called Byzantium, and renamed this city as "Constantinople - the New Rome" in the year 330 AD. Constantinople remained the capital of the New Roman (or Eastern Roman) Empire until the year 1453 AD.
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AnswerIn 330 CE, Emperor Constantine dedicated the new city of Constantinople as the imperial capital of the Roman 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.