Going through the Imperial Gate in the wall, I entered the grounds of Topkapi Palace, home of the Sultans and nerve center of the vast Ottoman Empire, and walked along a road toward another gate in the distance, past the Church of St. Irene, completed by Constantine in 330 A.D. on my left, and then, just outside the second gate, I saw a spring with a tap in the wall on my right -- the Executioner's Spring, where he washed his hands and his sword after beheading his victims.

The strategic significance of the strait was one of the factors in the decision of the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great to found there in AD 330 his new capital, Constantinople, which came to be known as the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.

The location of Byzantium attracted Roman Emperor Constantine I who, in 330 AD, refounded it as an imperial residence inspired by Rome itself.

It was founded in AD 330, at ancient Byzantium as the new capital of the Roman Empire by Constantine I, after whom it was named.

Historians generally refer to the continuing Roman Empire in the east as the Byzantine Empire after Byzantium, the original name of the town that Constantine I would elevate to the Imperial capital as New Rome in 330 AD.

In 330, after a period of civil war, Constantine the Great ( r. 306 – 337 ) refounded the city of Byzantium as the newly renamed eastern capital, Constantinople.

File: Limes4-it. png | Pannonia with Constantine I " limes " in 330 AD

The ( arch ) bishopric of Constantinople has had a continuous history since the founding of the city in 330 AD by Constantine the Great.

After Constantine the Great had enlarged Byzantium to make it into a new capital city in 330, it was thought appropriate that its bishop, once a suffragan of Heraclea Pontica and traditionally a successor of Saint Andrew the Apostle, should become second only to the Bishop of Old Rome.

* Roman Greece, the period between Roman victory over the Corinthians at the Battle of Corinth in 146 BC and the establishment of Byzantium by Constantine as the capital of the Roman Empire in 330 AD.

* Helena ( Empress ) ( died 330 ), Roman mother of Emperor Constantine

246 / 50 – 18 August 330 ) was the consort of Emperor Constantius, and the mother of Emperor Constantine the Great.

Her son Constantine renamed the city " Helenopolis " after her death in 330, which supports the belief that the city was her birthplace.

Constantine mainly resided in Nicomedia as his interim capital city for the next six years, until in 330 he declared the nearby Byzantium ( which was renamed Constantinople ) the new capital.

Following Constantine's victory over co-emperor Licinius at the Battle of Chrysopolis ( Üsküdar ) in 324, Nicomedia served as an interim capital city for Constantine the Great between 324 and 330, until the nearby Byzantium was officially declared Nova Roma ( later known as Constantinople, present-day Istanbul ).

Constantine mainly resided in Nicomedia as his interim capital city for the next six years, until in 330 he declared the nearby Byzantium as Nova Roma, which eventually became known as Constantinople.

* 330 – Constantine makes Constantinople the capital.

There is a tradition that, before his death, the Emperor Constantine I bestowed upon him the honorary title of Patriarch ; however, Byzantium did not become the capital of the Empire until 330 ( when it was renamed New Rome or Constantinople ), and the see was not elevated to a patriarchate until 451.

* " Nova Roma " is traditionally reported to be the Latin name given by emperor Constantine the Great to the new imperial capital he founded in 330 at the city on the European coast of the Bosporus strait, known as Byzantium until then and as Kōnstantinoúpolis ( Constantinople ) from that time to its official renaming as Istanbul in 1928.

There are some vestiges of a Roman bridge across the Danube, built in 330 by Constantine the Great.

The date is therefore probably within the reign of Constantine ( died 337 ), while the great council was still imposed on all by the emperor, about 330.

After Constantine centralized the government in his new capital of Constantinople ( dedicated in 330 ), the Late Antique upper classes were divided among those who had access to the far-away centralized administration ( in concert with the great landowners ), and those who did not — though they were well-born and thoroughly educated, a classical education and the election by the Senate to magistracies was no longer the path to success.

* Aurelius Valerius Tullianus Symmachus, proconsul of Achaea ( Roman province ), to whom two laws of Constantine the Great were sent in AD 319, and consul in 330.

The complex was partially torn down and filled with earth to provide a foundation for the building of the first St. Peter's Basilica during the reign of Constantine I in about AD 330.

This makes the 330 a popular Leslie to convert to tube amplification.

Kočani spreads over an area of and has population of 28, 330 inhabitants which makes it the third regional center in the Eastern part of the country:

Although a significant period of his career was spent in the English non-league and in Spain, his tally of 330 league goals still makes him the 6th top goalscorer in the history of English league football.

: For the city in the late Roman and the Eastern Roman or Byzantine periods ( 330 – 1453 ), see Constantinople.

Constantinople was built over 6 years, and consecrated on 11 May 330.

* 330 – Byzantium is renamed Nova Roma during a dedication ceremony, but it is more popularly referred to as Constantinople.

Gaining sole reign of the empire, he is also noted for re-establishing a single imperial capital, choosing the site of ancient Byzantium in 330 ( over of the current capitals, which had effectively been changed by Diocletian's reforms to Milan in the West, and Nicomedia in the East ) to build the city soon called Nova Roma ( New Rome ); it was later renamed Constantinople in his honor.

After 330 they are moved to Constantinople and in 1204 they are installed at the corner of the facade of the St Mark's Basilica, Venice ( approximate date ).

A large ancient hippodrome was the Hippodrome of Constantinople, built between AD 203 and 330.

The tradition of eastern liturgical chant, encompassing the Greek-speaking world, developed in the Byzantine Empire from the establishment of its capital, Constantinople, in 330 until its fall in 1453.

However, in 330, the capital of the Empire was transferred to Constantinople, so with the fleet that stationed at Ravenna, thus weakened the coastal defence in the Adriatic.

Mehmed's claim rested with the concept that Constantinople was the seat of the Roman Empire, after the transfer of its capital to Constantinople in 330 AD and the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

The Council, which was held in 325, of course made no mention of Constantinople, a city which was founded and became the capital of the empire only in 330.

Officially, Constantinople was founded on 11 May 330.

Mehmed's claim rested with the concept that Constantinople was the seat of the Roman Empire, after the transfer of its capital to Constantinople in 330 AD and the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

Caesaropapism's chief example is the authority the Byzantine ( East Roman ) Emperors had over the Church of Constantinople or Eastern Christian Church from the 330 consecration of Constantinople through the tenth century.

Ambrose was born into a Roman Christian family about 330 and was raised in Trier.

Between 330 and 320 BC he organized an expedition by ship into the Atlantic and as far north as England, and to visit Iceland, Shetland, and Norway.

A large dust devil measuring about 100 meters ( 330 ft ) across at its base can lift about 15 metric tonnes ( 17 short tons ) of dust into the air in 30 minutes.

Currently the escarpment rises 330 metres above the plateau and extends approximately 500 kilometres along the East edge of the park and on into Arnhem Land.

To give some idea as to the nature of this undertaking: The Quran is divided into 114 Surahs ( chapters ), containing 6, 236 verses ( comprising some 80, 000 words or 330, 000 individual characters ).

Գրիգոր Լուսավորիչ ), who baptized Armenia into the first Christian state by 301 AD In about 330 AD, the grandson of St. Gregory, St. Grigoris, ecumenical head of the eastern provinces of Armenia, was designated bishop for the Kingdom of Aghvank.

He is credited with the translation of some 1, 330 fascicles of scriptures into Chinese.

Once nearly 20 meters high, today, it lies fractured into four pieces, but would have weighed near 330 tons when intact.

The light energy emitted by a flash is supplied by the capacitor, and is proportional to the product of the capacitance and half the voltage squared ; photoflash capacitors have capacitance in the range 80-160 microfarads ( µF ) and voltages from 180 – 330 volts for flash units built into small disposable and compact cameras, increasing for units delivering higher light energy.

On 23 June 1985, the aircraft operating on the route — a Boeing 747-237B ( c / n 21473 / 330, reg VT-EFO ) named after Emperor Kanishka — was blown up by a bomb at an altitude of, and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean while in Irish airspace.

At 09: 43 on 19 November, the three companies ( 330 men ) of 2 / 503 moved into jumpoff positions from which to assault Hill 875.

During the F5 tornado that moved into Oklahoma City on May 3, 1999, a Doppler On Wheels situated near the tornado measured winds of 301 +/- 20 mph ( 484 +/- 32 km / h ) momentarily in a small area inside the funnel approximately 100 m ( 330 ft ) above ground level.

About 15 miles up from the Missouri, where Davidson Coulee flows into Cow Creek, Blaine County Road 330 ( Cow Creek Trail ) drops down Davidson ridge to Cow Creek Bottom from the west.

* January 26 – JAT Yugoslav Airlines Flight 367, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32, explodes in flight at 33, 330 feet ( 10, 160 m ), breaks into two pieces, and crashes near Srbská Kamenice, Czechoslovakia, killing 27 of the 28 people on board.

Adding to these other affluent rivers collect residual waters from other major cities and deposit an approximate of 330 tons of residual waste into the river.

Edward Thring transformed the School from a small, high-quality local grammar school into a large, well-known public school, with 330 pupils.

The Roman period covers the dates 63 BCE to 330 CE, from Pompey the Great's incorporation of the region into the Roman Republic until Rome's adoption of Christianity as the imperial religion.

The region is drained by 330 miles ( 530 km ) of main stem rivers, into which flow 3, 850 miles ( 6, 200 km ) of smaller tributaries.

The spacecraft was successfully launched into a 330, 000 km apogee orbit 180 degrees away from the Moon, however on re-entry the L1's guidance system failed.

On July 31, Major Andrew Williamson captured two white loyalists, who led his 330 men into an ambush prepared by their fellow Tories and Seneca Indians on the Keowee River.

The first was on March 29 at 10: 15 UTC when the aft maneuvering thrusters fired for about 8 seconds putting it into a 330. 2 km x 337. 2 km orbit.

550 – 330 BCE ) the foundation was laid for Middle-Eastern food when rice, poultry and fruits were incorporated into their diets.

Constantinople came into prominence only after the early Christian period, being founded officially in 330, five years after the First Council of Nicaea, though the much smaller original city of Byzantium was an early center of Christianity largely due to its proximity to Anatolia.