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  2. 1 day ago · In 330, Constantine the Great, the emperor who accepted Christianity, established a second capital in Byzantium, which he renamed Constantinople. Historians consider the Dominate period of the empire to have begun with either Diocletian or Constantine, depending on the author. [9]

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    6 days ago · Diocletian (/ ˌ d aɪ. ə ˈ k l iː ʃ ən /, DYE-ə-KLEE-shən; Latin: Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus, Ancient Greek: Διοκλητιανός, romanized: Diokletianós; 242/245 – 311/312), nicknamed Jovius, was Roman emperor from 284 until his abdication in 305.

  4. 19 hours ago · Roman Senate (officially) and/or Roman military. The Roman emperor was the ruler and monarchical head of state of the Roman Empire, starting with the granting of the title augustus to Octavian in 27 BC. [2] The term "emperor" is a modern convention, and did not exist as such during the Empire. Often when a given Roman is described as becoming ...

    • 17 January 395 AD (unified), 9 April 480 AD (Western), 29 May 1453 (Eastern)
    • Augustus
    • 16 January 27 BC
  5. 4 days ago · It switched hands between Persians, Athenians, Spartans, Macedonians and Romans until it was destroyed in 196 B.C. The city was rebuilt, and later in 330 C.E. the rebuilt city became the site of Roman Emperor Constantines “New Rome,” a Christian city of immense wealth and magnificent architecture.

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    • 2020
  6. Opinion: Constantine IV is underrated. I've been doing some re-reading recently about the 7th century and the East Romans struggle against the Muslim Caliphate, and I've come to notice what a turning point his actions were during the war. We often think of the 718 siege of Constantinople as the turning point of the conflict, but now I think ...

  7. 3 days ago · Indeed, Byzantine architects, artisans, and engineers brought the Greco-Roman architecture of antiquity into the Middle Ages. The enduring symbol of this architectural style is the Hagia Sophia. The colossal cathedral was commissioned by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I and has dominated the cityscape of Constantinople since its completion in ...

  8. 2 days ago · 2. Mithras. Bronze plaque of Mithras slaying a bull, dated 2nd-3rd century CE, Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Mithras is somewhat of a mystery among the gods of the Roman pantheon, as he appeared in historical records in the late first century CE then just as quickly vanished by the fourth century CE.