New Rome

::This article is about the concept of New Rome in Western Civilization; for the dissolved village in Ohio, see New Rome, Ohio

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Ohio - New Rome, Ohio

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New Rome is a term that can be applied to a city or a country. It can be used to express connection with or discontinuity from the "old" Rome, depending upon context. New Rome has been a cultural, historical, and theological concept within much of Western culture (as far east as Russia) for centuries if not millennia. The term "New Rome" can be used as insult and as praise. Its oldest use may be in reference to Constantinople, since Nova Roma or ??? ???? was an alternate name for the city. This particular New Rome served as the capital of the Roman Empire from the 4th century until the fall of the Western empire and for nearly a millennium afterwards for the Empire as it survived in the east. In 451 the Council of Chalcedon gave New Rome and its Patriarch equal ecclesiastical status with Old Rome.

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City - Country - Rome - Western culture - Constantinople - Roman Empire - 4th century - Empire - 451 - Council of Chalcedon

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