<prompt> Translate the following text to SwahiliThe Hippodrome was the setting for the ceremony which proclaimed Constantinople as the New Rome in a.d. 330, following the division of the Roman Empire, and soon became the civic centre of the Byzantine capital, decorated with imposing monuments and flanked by fine buildings.  <response>: Hippodrome ilikuwa eneo la sherehe ya kutangaza Constantinople kama Roma Mpya mnamo 330 KK, kufuatia mgawanyiko wa Milki ya Roma, na hivi karibuni ikawa kituo cha umma cha mji mkuu wa Byzantium, ukibuniwa na makaburi makubwa na kuzungukwa na majengo mazuri. 