Renamed Constantinople (330 AD) and later İstanbul (1930), Constantinople was the capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires and reigned supreme as the most magnificent city in Western Civilization for nearly 1000 years.
Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus Augustus was found Constantinople as the new capital of the roman empire. Constantine chooses Byzantium as the new capital of the Empire and renames it Constantinopolis.
Constantinople and before that it was Byzantium.
Byzantium.
Istanbul
The original greek town is Byzantium
Byzantium
Constantinople
Byzantium changed to Constantinople to Istanbul.
Byzantium.
Byzantium
Constantinople was made on the site of the city of Byzantium.
Byzantium was the Greek city that Constantinople was built on.