Constantinople
capital of the Eastern Roman, Latin and Ottoman Empires, currently Istanbul, Turkey / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Constantinople (Greek: Κωνσταντινούπολις, romanized: Kōnstantinoúpolis; Latin: Constantinopolis) was the capital city of the Roman Empire from 330 AD and later what historians called the Byzantine Empire. Constantinople was located in the Bosporus, the strait between the Balkans and Asia Minor.