Friday, May 11, 2007
This Day in Ancient History
On this day in 330, Constantinople, named after Emperor Constantine and built over the ancient city of Byzantium, was dedicated as the new capital of the Roman Empire--the Eastern Roman Empire. Rome was still the capital of the Western Empire which was in semi-serious decline and would not last another 300 years (the Western Empire, not Rome). The Eastern Empire was going strong, albeit in a different form, a thousand years later.
Labels: Roman Empire
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 12:04 AM 
