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Why is the Byzantine Emperor called "Second Rome"?

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In 330, Constantine moved the seat of the empire to Constantinople, which he founded as a second Rome on the site of Byzantium, a city located on the trade routes between Europe and Asia and between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

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