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Constantinople
- The emperor Constantine began his rule of the enormous Roman Empire in A.D. 306.
- Constantine chose Byzantine to make a city there which he renamed it Constantinople. (The city of Constantine.)
- In the early 1200's, Constantinople was attacked by Christian crusaders.
- In 1453, a force about 70000 Turks surrounded Constantinople They brought cannons to attack.
- The Empire fell, but the new rulers would make Constantinople a new, and imperial city. Just like Constantine.