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Mar 9, 2020 · A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Constantinople became a new Rome, and the Emperor Constantine the Great celebrated the inauguration of his new capital city, and the name of the town originates from his name. In 330 AD, he split the Roman Empire into two parts: Eastern and Western, and the western half centered in Rome while the eastern half ...
Dec 6, 2021 · Then there was Jerusalem, too, a medium-sized Roman colony since the reign of Hadrian (r. 117-138 CE), then the third focus of Constantinian building after Rome and Constantinople. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, incorporating another great basilica, was constructed in the last years of Constantine's reign.
Already during Constantine’s lifetime it was referred to as altera Roma (the other, or “a second” Rome) and as the old capital’s “sister”; and in 357, the orator Themistius, addressing Rome’s proud senate in Greek, called Constantinople nea Rōmē (new Rome). 1 The eastern city was granted the entirely exceptional honor of its own ...
Dec 6, 2023 · Between 324–330 C.E., Constantine built a new Roman capital at the ancient city of Byzantium on the Bosporus strait, which was renamed “New Rome” and “Constantinople,” and is today known as Istanbul. Constantinople now became the center of the Roman Empire.
Apr 3, 2012 · Constantinople was named New Rome or Second Rome very soon after its foundation on the site of Byzantium in AD 324; over the next two hundred years it replaced the original Rome as the greatest city of the Mediterranean.
Footnote 48 True, there are claims that Constantine decided in 324 to found it as ‘the new Rome’ Footnote 49 or ‘the second Rome’, Footnote 50 but these sources are of a later date. In fact, the name that stuck was Constantinople.
Byzantine Empire. Also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in the east during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when the empire’s capital city was Constantinople. The age of Constantine marked a distinct epoch in the history of the Roman Empire.
