At first this city was called Byzantium, then Constantinople; in 1930, its official name became this
It remained the principal official name of the city throughout the 
Byzantine... [DOC] [TLE] Constantinople - Wikipedia [PAR] Constantinople was the capital city of the Roman/Byzantine Empire (3301204 
and .... Byzantium took on the name of Konstantinoupolis ("city of Constantine", ... 
from Rome to Byzantium in 330 AD and designated his new capital officially as 
Nova ... As the city became the sole remaining capital of the Roman Empire after 
the... [DOC] [TLE] Why is Constantinople now called Istanbul?