Dedication of Constantinople

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1. Story
2. Constantine dedicates his refounded city on the site of Byzantium. It is deliberately a second Rome: a Senate, grain distributions redirected from Egypt, monumental building. Within a century the empire's demographic, fiscal and administrative centre of gravity has moved east, which is most of the reason the western half is the half that fails first.
3. Knowledge
4. Constantinople
5. Rome
6. Alexandria
7. The Mediterranean Sea (Mare Nostrum)
8. Dedication of Constantinople
9. Connections
10. Constantinople
11. Constantinople
12. Alexandria
13. Rome
14. The Mediterranean Sea (Mare Nostrum)
15. Antioch on the Orontes
16. Dedication of Constantinople
17. Silkworm cultivation reaches Byzantium
18. Plague reaches the Mediterranean
19. Christianity
20. The 'Edict of Milan' — toleration and restitution in the Roman Empire
21. Dedication of Constantinople
22. Administrative division of the empire on the death of Theodosius I
23. Odoacer deposes Romulus Augustulus - the contested 'fall' of the Western Roman Empire
24. Compilation of the Corpus Iuris Civilis
25. Ottoman capture of Constantinople
26. Hagia Sophia, Constantinople / Istanbul
27. Justinian commissions Hagia Sophia from two geometers
28. Istanbul
29. Christianity
30. The Mediterranean Sea (Mare Nostrum)
31. Latin as an Administrative Language
32. Battle of Actium
33. Dedication of Constantinople
34. The Egyptian cable land crossing
35. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
36. The Roman Legion
37. Roman Law
38. The Mediterranean Sea (Mare Nostrum)
39. Ostia Antica
40. Via Appia
41. Traditional foundation of the Roman Republic
42. Construction of the Via Appia begins
43. The Punic Wars
44. Caesar crosses the Rubicon
45. Assassination of Julius Caesar
46. The Augustan settlement: Octavian becomes Augustus
47. Inauguration of the Flavian Amphitheatre
48. Dedication of Constantinople
49. Administrative division of the empire on the death of Theodosius I
50. Alaric's Goths sack Rome
51. Odoacer deposes Romulus Augustulus - the contested 'fall' of the Western Roman Empire
52. The Pantheon, Rome
53. The Pantheon dome spans about 43 m in unreinforced concrete
54. Rome
55. The Roman Road Network
56. Alexandria
57. The Punic Wars
58. The Punic Wars
59. Battle of Actium
60. Dedication of Constantinople
61. Evidence
62. Where to end the Roman Empire is an open scholarly question with several defensible answers - 476, 480, 554, 602, 800 and 1453 among them - and the choice reflects the historian's criterion (western imperial office, state continuity, material culture, self-identification) rather than a discoverable fact. A substantial 'continuity' school treats the eastern Roman state as unbroken to 1453.
63. Justinian's compilation preserves the bulk of surviving classical Roman jurisprudence and was issued from Constantinople in the name of the Roman emperor in the 530s CE - fifty-plus years after the conventional 476 'fall'. It is the transmission channel through which Roman law reached medieval and modern European legal systems.