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∙ 11y agoAlthough disputed by historians, a common consensus for the creation of Constantinople was so Constantine could have a capital representative of his new belief in Christianity. Religion aside however, Constantinople was also an excellent geographical location with its large, easy to defend Harbour. It was also a key passage linking the Mediterranean to the Black Sea making it a useful navy base.
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∙ 6y agoEmperor Constantine the Great moved the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to Constantinople around 330 AD. He felt that Rome was an unsatisfactory capital. Rome was too far from the frontiers. Constantinople provided easy trade and military access to the Mediterranean, Black Sea, Danube River, Dnieper River, the land route to Turkestan and India.
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∙ 6y agoEmperor Constantine the Great moved the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to Constantinople around 330 AD. He felt that Rome was an unsatisfactory capital. Rome was too far from the frontiers. Constantinople provided easy trade and military access to the Mediterranean, Black Sea, Danube River, Dnieper River, the land route to Turkestan and India, Antioch and the Silk Road, and Alexandria at the mouth of the Nile River.
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∙ 6y agoEmperor Constantine the Great moved the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to Constantinople around 330 AD. He felt that Rome was an unsatisfactory capital. Rome was too far from the frontiers. Constantinople provided easy trade and military access to the Mediterranean, Black Sea, Danube River, Dnieper River, the land route to Turkestan and India, Antioch and the Silk Road, and Alexandria at the mouth of the Nile River.
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∙ 6y agoEmperor Constantine the Great moved the capital of the Byzantine/Roman Empire from Rome to Constantinople around 330 AD. He felt that Rome was an unsatisfactory capital. Rome was too far from the frontiers. Constantinople provided easy trade and military access to the Mediterranean, Black Sea, Danube River, Dnieper River, and the land route to Turkestan and India.
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∙ 13y agoConstantine was the Roman Emperor and he moved his capital from Rome to Byzantium. He renamed the city in honor of himself.
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Where did Constantine move Rome's capital?
Constantine moved the capital to Byzantium which he rebuilt and renamed Constantinople after himself.
Who moved to Rome?
No one. Rome is still where it has always been. Constantine the Great did move the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to Constantinople.
Where did Constantine move the empires capital to?
Constantine moved the capital to Constantinople. Constantinople wasnot the capital of the whole empire. it was the capital of the eastern part of the empire. Constantine moved the capital of the east from Nicomedia (in northwestern Turkey) to Constantinople. The imperial capital of the western part was Milan. Rome was the nominal capital of the whole empire.
Where did Constantine move the capital city?
in Constantinople
Who did contanine move the capital of Rome to Constantinople?
You have already answered you question. Constantine moved the capital to Constantinople, which means City of Constantine. However, he did not move it from Rome. Rome had already ceased to be the capital under the reign of the previous emperor, Diocletian. Diocletian had designated Nicomedia (in northwestern Turkey, just 67 miles east of Constantinople) as the imperial capital of the eastern part of the empire and Milan (in northern Italy) as the imperial capital of the western part.
What city did Constantine move his empire from Rome to?
Byzantium, renamed Constantinople, and later became the Ottoman capital Istanbul.
What city of rome did Constantine move the capital out of to move to byzantium?
Constantine I moved the capital of the eastern part of the empire from Nicomedia (in northwestern Turkey) to the nearby Byzantium which was redeveloped and renamed Constantinople. The capital of the western part of the empire was Milan.
Which Roman emperor moved the capital of the Empire to Byzantium?
The emperor Constantine I (or the Great) did not move the imperial capital of the roman Empire from Rome to Byzantium. He moved the imperial capital of the eastern part of the Roman Empire from Nicomedia (in north-western Turkey) to the nearby Byzantium, which he redeveloped and renamed after himself -- Constantinople (City of Constantine). Milan remained the imperial capital of the western part of the empire.Nicomedia and Milan had been designated as the imperial capitals of the east and west respectively by the emperor Diocletian. Rome had already ceased to be the imperial capital before Constantine.
Where did Constantine move the capital from?
No. Actually, Constantine moved the capital from Rome to Byzantium, which he re-named Nova Roma ("New Rome"). After his death, the city was renamed Constantinople in his honor. Today it is known as Istanbul.Actually that is incorrect. Because the Roman Empire was too large to govern, The Empire was split in two-the western part and the eastern part. The western part's capital was Rome, and the eastern's was Byzantium. Rome remained capital of the western part, although the western part declined while the eastern flourished. Byzantium was later renamed Constantinople in order to honur Constantine.Rome was not the capital of the west. It was Milan. Diocletian subdivided the empire into a western part and an eastern part. He was in charge of the east and co-emperor Maximian the west. Milan was turned into the imperial capital of the west and Nicomedia (in northwestern Turkey into the imperial capital of the east. Rome became the nominal capital of the empire as a whole. Constantine moved the capital of the east from Nicomedia to Byzantium, which he redeveloped renamed either New Rome or Constantinople (some historians argue that it was called Constantinople from the beginning of its becoming a capital and that New Rome was only an honorific title for the city). The western part begun to decline some 70 years after the creation of Constantinople.
What year did Constantine move the capital to byzantium?
Constantine did not move the imperial capital form Rome to Byzantium. Rome had already ceased to be the capital when his predecessor, Diocletian, designated Nicomedia (in north-western Turkey) as the imperial capital of the eastern part of the empire and Milan (in Italy) as the imperial capital of the western part of the empire. Constantine redeveloped Byzantium and renamed it. It became Constantinople (City of Constantine). It was inaugurated in 330.
What emperor moved the capital of rome to created constantinople?
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What was the new capital of Constantine?
The Roman capital was not moved to Constantinople. What Constantine the Great did was to move the imperial capital of the eastern part of the empire from Nicomedia (in northeastern Turkey) to the nearby Byzantium, redeveloped it and renamed it Constantinople. Milan remained the imperial capital of the western part the Roman Empire. An imperial capital in the west and one in the east had been established by emperor Diocletian not long before Constantine's rule. The new imperial capitals were created to bring imperial administration closer to the troubled frontiers of the empire than Rome. Rome became the nominal capital of the empire.
