Constantinople from 330 C.E. to 1930 the name of what is nowIstanbuland formerly wasByzantium, the city on the European side of the Bosphorus that served as the former capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, from GreekKonstantinou polis"Constantine's city," named for Roman emperor Flaviu...
The iconography of the statue became then a part of the programme of the celebrations arranged on the occasion of the dedication of Constantinople, in which numerous references to Alexander played the key role. This new understanding of the colossus, placing its significance within the...
Map of Byzantine Constantinople under Constantine, Justinian and Heraclius. Explore Hagia Sophia, the Hippodrome, the Forum of Constantine and other features.
s own genius. A statue set up at the same time showed Constantine himself holding aloft a cross and thelegend“By this saving sign I have delivered your city from thetyrantand restored liberty to the Senate and people of Rome.” After his victory over Licinius in 324, Constantine wrote ...
Constantine’ssurname, Porphyrogenitus (that is, born in the Purple Chamber of the Imperial Palace in Constantinople, as befittedlegitimatechildren of reigning emperors), pointedly answers the doubts expressed about the legitimacy of his birth in 905, which slowed down his career and contributed to...