Text: The Hippodrome was the setting for the ceremony which proclaimed Constantinople as the New Rome in a.d. 330, following the division of the Roman Empire, and soon became the civic centre of the Byzantine capital, decorated with imposing monuments and flanked by fine buildings.
Entailment: There was a ceremony which proclaimed Constantinople as the New Rome in a.d. 330.
Contradiction: The Hippodrome was quite plain and uninteresting.