Title: What are the reasons why Constantine moved the capital to Constantinople? - Quora
Headings: What are the reasons why Constantine moved the capital to Constantinople?
What are the reasons why Constantine moved the capital to Constantinople?
Content: It was rather the culmination of a process that had began much earlier. By Constantine’s time, Rome had long ceased to be the center of the Roman Empire. The challenges faced by Rome in the third century, which included barbarian offensives on the Rhine and Danube fronts, a resurgent Persian Empire (Sassanid Dynasty) in the East and revolts by ambitious military commanders, meant that the Roman Emperors had to spend much of their time away from Rome, campaigning and defending the Empire from the various challenges it faced. The Emperors needed as their centers of operations cities that were close to the frontiers. This process was hastened by the administrative division of the Empire during the Tetrarchy ( Rule of Four ). Realizing that the empire was too large and had too many problems for a single ruler to handle, Diocletian administratively divided the empire in two halves, with himself ruling over the Greek East while his colleague Maximian would rule over the Latin West. The two of them would be Augusti. In 293, Diocletian further divided the empire as he and Maximian appointed a Caesar each in their realms to aid them. Τhe Tetrarchs established their own capitals/centers outside of Italy. Diocletian himself established his base in Nicomedia.