Yes, that is true. He saw in a great hope for a new and great civilization.
Constantine modelled Constantinople on Rome, taking advantage of the fact that this city had seven hills like Rome. This had a Propaganda purpose. Constantine had Byzantium redeveloped, renamed it Constantinople (City of Constantine) and designated it as the imperial capital as a symbol of the "new dawn" which his rule would usher in for the Roman Empire. Constantinople was given titles such as "The New, Second Rome,' 'Eastern Rome,' 'Alma Roma,' and 'Roma Constantinopolitana.' This "new", "second Rome" represented the beginning of a rebirth of the greatness of the empire, after a period of civil wars which was ended by Constantine winning them.
When the Emperor Constantine the Great moved the capital of the Roman Empire, from Rome to the Ancient Greek city of Byzantium, in 330 AD, he renamed it Constantinople (city of Constantine) and made it the new capital of the Roman Empire. Because there could not be two capital cities with the same name, he called Constantinople the New Rome (Nova Roma).
He moved the capital of Rome to Byzantium, later known as Constantinople, and named the city New Rome. Constantine was also the first Christian Roman emperor.
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.
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.
constantinople was named after constantine who was an emperor. Also constantinople was the new capital and that is why he decided to name it after himself.
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.
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.
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.
The Emperor Constantine the Great moved the capital of his Empire from Old Rome to Constantinople the New Rome in 330 AD. He ruled as Emperor in Constantinople from 330 AD until his death in 337 AD.
"He decided on the ancient Greek city of Byzantium. And on 8 November AD 324 Constantine created his new capital there, renaming it Constantinopolis (City of Constantine). He was careful to maintain Rome's ancient privileges, and the new senate founded in Constantinople was of a lower rank, but he clearly intended it to be the new center of the Roman world."So Constantinopolis would be your answer.Source: http://www.roman-empire.net/decline/constantine-index.html