Constantine never had a thing to do with the "eastern" empire or the "western" empire. He moved the capital of the Roman Empire to the eastern city of Constantinople. The connotation of eastern and western was not made by the ancients, but is a term invented by historians to clarify the part of the empire they would be writing about. The ancients considered the empire one, and they all considered themselves Roman.
Initially, it was Rome. The capital was moved by Emperor Constantine to Constantople (modern Istanbul) for strategic reasons: it was more easily defended. He named it Nova Roma; it was named after Constantine following his death.
The Byzantines were the inheritors of Rome. After Roman Empire split, Eastern Rome became known as the Byzantine empire, after the capital city of Byzantium. The Eastern Empire would outlast Western Rome by centuries.
The eastern portion of the Roman empire became known as the Byzantine empire.The eastern portion of the Roman empire became known as the Byzantine empire.The eastern portion of the Roman empire became known as the Byzantine empire.The eastern portion of the Roman empire became known as the Byzantine empire.The eastern portion of the Roman empire became known as the Byzantine empire.The eastern portion of the Roman empire became known as the Byzantine empire.The eastern portion of the Roman empire became known as the Byzantine empire.The eastern portion of the Roman empire became known as the Byzantine empire.The eastern portion of the Roman empire became known as the Byzantine empire.
Constantine I
The Western part is just called the Roman Empire or the Western Roman Empire but it would fall quickly....the east halve of the empire became the Byzantine Empire....This would also be the first great schizm and where Greek Orthodox/Eastern Orthdox is created as the second Christian religion
After ten years of civil war, where did Constantine establish the capital of the Eastern Empire?
Constantine was the Roman leader that ruled over the powerful Eastern Empire. He chose to move its capital to Byzantium and was the first to establish an attitude of acceptance toward Christians.
Constantine the Great
Constantinople
Constantine the great built an new capital in the Eastern Roman Empire. He moved the capital form Nicomedia (in northwestern Turkey) to Constantinople.
Constantinople was the capital city of the Eastern Roman Empire, named so after Constantine the Great. It was not an empire.
Constantine.
Constantine moved the capital to Constantinople. Constantinople wasnot the capital of the whole empire. it was the capital of the eastern part of the empire. Constantine moved the capital of the east from Nicomedia (in northwestern Turkey) to Constantinople. The imperial capital of the western part was Milan. Rome was the nominal capital of the whole empire.
the capital of eastern Rome was Constantinople or in other words Byzantium. It was ruled by Constantine
Constantine I moved the capital of the eastern part of the empire from Nicomedia (in northwestern Turkey) to the nearby Byzantium which was redeveloped and renamed Constantinople. The capital of the western part of the empire was Milan.
Constantine the Great, who reigned from 306 to 337.
Constantine the Great designated Byzantium as his imperial capital, redeveloped it and renamed it Constantinople (City of Constantine). Prior to this this city was not an imperial capital. The imperial capital in the eastern part of the Roman Empire was Nicomedia (in north-western Turkey), jut some 60 miles east of Byzantium.