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Constantine I [g] (27 February c. 272 – 22 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was a Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337 and the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity.
- Helena
Flavia Julia Helena [a] (/ ˈ h ɛ l ə n ə /; Greek: Ἑλένη,...
- List of People Known as The Great
This is a list of people known as the Great, or the...
- Constantius I
Flavius Valerius Constantius (c. 250 – 25 July 306), also...
- Constantine II
Constantine II (Latin: Flavius Claudius Constantinus; 316 –...
- Tetrarchy
The Tetrarchy was the system instituted by Roman emperor...
- Catechumen
Catechesis (/ ˌ k æ t ə ˈ k iː s ɪ s /; from Greek:...
- Church of The Holy Sepulchre
About 326, Constantine ordered that the temple to Jupiter or...
- Constans I
Flavius Julius Constans (c. 323 – 350), also called Constans...
- Fifty Bibles of Constantine
Codex Vaticanus Codex Sinaiticus. The Fifty Bibles of...
- Maxentius
Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius (c. 283 – 28 October 312)...
- Helena
Constantine I (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Αʹ, romanized: Konstantínos I; 2 August [O.S. 21 July] 1868 – 11 January 1923) was King of Greece from 18 March 1913 to 11 June 1917 and from 19 December 1920 to 27 September 1922.
- Early Life
- Constantine Becomes Emperor
- Byzantium
- Constantine & Christianity
- Death
Although sources vary on the exact year of his birth, Constantine (Gaius Flavis Valerius Constantinus) was born at Naissus in present-day Serbia as early as 272 CE or as late as 285 CE. Since his father was not only a military commander but also the caesarof the west, Constantine lived his entire early life in the imperial court, eventually serving...
With little support in the city, Maxentius left Rome to meet Constantine in one final, crucial battle - the Battle of Milvian Bridge in 312 CE. On the day before the battle began, Constantine reportedly looked to the sky where he saw a cross of light. Under it was the inscription In Hoc Signo Vinces or “in this sign, conquer”. That night, in a drea...
The 52-year-old Constantine was now the sole emperor of the empire, and with it, a sense of stability returned. Constantine realized that Old Rome was not the city he wanted for a capital, and despite several of the building projects he instituted, it was decaying. Rome was no longer practical (Constantine even disbanded the Praetorian Guard), and ...
During his years of warfare in the west he had always demonstrated religious tolerance with both pagans and Christians (he claimed to be a Christian since 312 CE). His mother Helena was a devout Christian, and after Constantine became emperor, he sent her on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land where she had built the Church of the Nativity at Bethlehem. ...
Constantine the Great maintained his role as a military commander, fighting the Alemanni in 328 CE with the assistance of his son Constantius II, defeating the Goths in 332 CE by starving them into submission, and lastly, capturing lost territories from the Dacians (territories that were later lost after his death). His last wish was to conquer nei...
- Donald L. Wasson
constantine. Constantine I (27 February 272 – 22 May 337 AD) was a Roman emperor from 306 until he died. He was emperor for longer than any other emperor since Augustus, the first emperor. He was the first ruler of the Roman Empire to be a Christian. He made the old city Byzantium into a new, larger city: Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey).
Jul 29, 2024 · Constantine I was the king of Greece from 1913 to 1917 and from 1920 to 1922. His neutralist, but essentially pro-German, attitude during World War I caused the Western Allies and his Greek opponents to depose him in 1917, and, having lent himself to Greece’s disastrous policy of territorial.
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Apr 2, 2014 · Constantine I was a Roman emperor who ruled early in the 4th century. He was the first Christian emperor and saw the empire begin to become a Christian state.
Constantine's vision and the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in a 9th-century Byzantine manuscript. During the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great (306–337 AD), Christianity began to transition to the dominant religion of the Roman Empire.
