Title: Constantinople - ☧ Byzantine
Headings: Constantinople
Constantinople
Constantinople - Κωνσταντινούπολις was the capital city of the Roman Empire (330–1453).
Names
Before Constantinople
Names of Constantinople
Modern names of the city
History
Byzantium and earlier settlements
324–337: Foundation of Constantinople
337–529: Constantinople during the Barbarian Invasions and the fall of the Western Roman Administrative Department
527–565: Constantinople in the Age of Justinian
Survival, 565–717: Constantinople during the Byzantine Dark Ages
717–1025: Constantinople during the Macedonian Renaissance
Iconoclast controversy in Constantinople
1025–1081: Constantinople after Basil II
1081–1185: Constantinople under the Comneni
1185–1261: Constantinople during the Imperial Exile
1261–1453: Palaiologan Era and the Fall of Constantinople
1453–1922: Ottoman Kostantiniyye
Culture
Architecture
Religion
Education

Content: It was a move greatly criticized by the contemporary consul and historian Cassius Dio who said that Severus had destroyed "a strong Roman outpost and a base of operations against the barbarians. He would later rebuild Byzantium towards the end of his reign, in which it would be briefly renamed Augusta Antonina, fortifying it with a new city wall in his name, the Severan Wall. 324–337: Foundation of Constantinople
Constantine had altogether more colourful plans. Having restored the unity of the Empire, and, being in the course of major governmental reforms as well as of sponsoring the consolidation of the Christian church, he was well aware that Rome was an unsatisfactory capital. Rome was too far from the frontiers, and hence from the armies and the imperial courts, and it offered an undesirable playground for disaf