Constantinople

Located at Istanbul Turkey. was once Byzantium but was rebuilt and renamed by Constantine. Chosen as the eastaen capital of the empire. Important defense center against the Visigoths.

From Wikipedia: Strategically located between the [|Golden Horn] and the [|Sea of Marmara] at the point where [|Europe] meets [|Asia], Byzantine Constantinople had been the capital of a [|Christian] empire, successor to ancient [|Greece] and [|Rome]. Throughout the[|Middle Ages] Constantinople was Europe's largest[|[1]] and wealthiest city. Constantinople was built over six years, and consecrated on 11 May 330. Although the city was essentially Greek-speaking, Latin was the language of government. It became known as //Constantinopolis//, "Constantine's City".[|[6]] Constantine divided the expanded city, like Rome, into 14 regions,[|[7]] and ornamented it with public works worthy of an imperial metropolis.[|[8]] Yet initially Constantine's new Rome did not have all the dignities of old Rome. It possessed a [|proconsul], rather than an [|urban prefect]. It had no [|praetors], [|tribunes] or [|quaestors].

In 1347, the [|Black Death] spread to Constantinople.[|[39]] In 1453, when the Ottoman Turks [|captured the city], it contained approximately 50,000 people.