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Byzantium was originally byzantium. It was renamed Constantinople when Roman Emperor Constantine left the city of Rome and declared Byzantium its new capital. Constantinople became the modern-day city of Istanbul when it was captured by a Turkish group of barbarians by name of the Ottomans.

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