In A.D. 330, Constantine the Great inaugurated his new capital city, the former Byzantium, which had started as a Greek colony in the 7th century B.C. Later to be known as Constantinople and later, Istanbul, at the time when Byzantium became the New Rome, Constantinople was still pagan. Constantinople remained the capital of the Byzantine Empire until 1453 when it became part of the Ottoman Empire.

• Byzantine Era
• Definition of Byzantine
• The Name Constantine
• Archaic Age Greece