Constantinople was originally a town called Byzantium. It was founded at some time around 665 BC. When Emperor Constantine I became Emperor, he decided the city of Rome had too many problems to be the capital of the Empire, so he built Byzantium into a new capital. It was consecrated as the capital of the Roman Empire in 330, on May 11.

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