Peter the Great built his capital city on land near Russia's border with Finland. It was marshland where the river Neva meets the Gulf of Finland's easternmost shore. It was intended to be Russia's contact with the Western world unlike Moscow which was more in contact with the Eastern world. He named it St. Petersburg after his patron saint, St. Peter.
Constantine the Great. The new capital city Byzantium was renamed Constantinople after him.
he built what is today known as Istanbul (Constantinople) located in Turkey.
Hernando Cortez established Mexico City and as the new capital of Mexico- then New Spain.
Constantine the great built an new capital in the Eastern Roman Empire. He moved the capital form Nicomedia (in northwestern Turkey) to Constantinople.
because they wanted to more people to move inwards and because the current capital was to easy to be invaded by Portuguese enemy's
Peter the Great's new Capital was a city on the Baltic Sea, renamed St Petersburg. Russia's "window to the West". :D
He conscripted tens of thousands of Russian peasants to work each summer.
Ivan the Terrible dumb answer above, it was Peter the great.
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No, Peter the great built St. Petersburg.
Russia gained land along the Baltic Sea, and then used the land to build a new capital city, St. Petersburg.
Constantine built the city of Constantinople as the new capital.
The new Russian capital, Saint Petersburg, was built on the shores of the Baltic Sea in 1703 by Peter the Great. It was strategically located to provide Russia with access to maritime trade and serve as a window to Europe.
Peter the Great built St. Petersburg as a western alternative to Moscow. Moscow was too Asian and Byzantine for his likes, since he was a great admirer of the Western world. He built the new city more in the Western style and closer to the North Sea and ties to the West.
Constantine the Great. The new capital city Byzantium was renamed Constantinople after him.
he built what is today known as Istanbul (Constantinople) located in Turkey.