constantinople became the capital of the roman empire in 626.
what year did constantinople become the capital of the roman empire?
626
bullet::::- constantinople – founded in ad 330, at ancient byzantium as the new capital of the entire roman empire by constantine the great, after whom it was named.





























bullet::::- walls of constantinople





























bullet::::- fall of the western roman empire (476 ad) – the two halves of the roman empire ended at different times, with the western roman empire coming to an end in 476 ad (the end of ancient rome). the eastern roman empire (referred to by historians as the byzantine empire) survived for nearly a thousand years more, and eventually engulfed much of the western roman empire's former territory.
outline of ancient rome
after constantinople fell to the ottoman turks in 1453, the patriarchate came to care more directly for all the orthodox living in the ottoman empire. hovagim i was at the time the metropolitan of bursa. in 1461, hovagim i was brought to constantinople by sultan mehmed ii and established as the armenian patriarch of constantinople which the office was created solely with a political purpose. sultan mehmed ii wanted armenian-greek separation. constantinople become the real center of their ecclesiastical and national life. the armenian patriarch and not the catholicos of etchmiadzin, was their most important national dignitary, as part of mehmed's wish. in the sultan's capital, lived the largest armenian community in the world; and his civil-ecclesiastical authority made the sultan practically the most powerful official among the armenians at large. before the ottoman conquest in 1453 there were probably no armenian churches in constantinople. since 1453, 55 new armenian churches were built in istanbul, some are from the 16th century.
armenians in the ottoman empire