• Thanks to its prime strategic position, and its formidable Theodosian walls, Constantinople was also an impregnable bastion.
  • In the 4th century, Roman emperor Constantine the Great made Byzantium the capital of the Roman Empire and renamed it to Constantinople.
  • Depiction of Istanbul, then known in English as Constantinople, from Young Folks' History of Rome by Charlotte Mary Yonge.
  • Next (Constantinople, Fall of). Constantinople (Greek: Κωνσταντινούπολη) was the capital of the Byzantine Empire and, following its fall in 1453...
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    Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, Constantinople (Istanbul) and the Bosphorus detail. Another Daydream.
  • A new source of difficulty between Constantinople and Rome arose over the use of the title "ecumenical patriarch" by the patriarchs of Constantinople.
  • The city later became Constantinople, in honor of its Roman founder; it was renamed Istanbul by the Turks during the 20th century.
  • Constantinople is the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire . In 324, the ancient city of Byzantium was renamed “ New Rome ” and declared the new capital of the Roman...
  • Constantinople was the largest and wealthiest city of the Middle Ages and one of the few remnants of the once all-encompassing Roman Empire.