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Before Constantinople was eventually named, it had been called the "New Rome" by Constantine himself. Prior to that, it used to be known as "Augusta Antonina" named after the wife of Roman emperor Septimus Severius. And before that, it was "Byzantium", meaning the city of Byzas.

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Constantinople was the former name of Istanbul.

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