Historical place profile
Byzantium / Constantinople
Byzantium became Constantinople, imperial capital of the eastern Roman world and one of the great patriarchal and conciliar centres of Christianity.
Historical layers
- Greek city of Byzantium
- Constantinian refoundation
- Eastern Roman imperial capital
- Councils, patriarchate and doctrinal controversies
- Latin occupation, restoration and Ottoman conquest
Church-history significance
The city hosted major councils and became the seat whose rank and jurisdiction generated enduring canonical controversy. Imperial residence, episcopal prestige and doctrinal authority must be analysed separately.
Primary and geographic sources
- Pleiades place 520985
- Acts of the Councils of Constantinople
- Late Roman and Byzantine chronicles
Map semantics
The coordinate at 41.005902, 28.973881499999997 is a representative_point_not_boundary. It anchors the place for research and does not assert one unchanging urban, political or ecclesiastical boundary across all periods.
Catalogue record
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:520985
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:520985
- Place type
- settlement
- Precision
- precise
- Provenance
- Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 53 A2 Byzantium