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Constantine the Great   /kˈɑnstəntˌin ðə greɪt/   Listen
Constantine the Great

noun
1.
Emperor of Rome who stopped the persecution of Christians and in 324 made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire; in 330 he moved his capital from Rome to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople (280-337).  Synonyms: Constantine, Constantine I, Flavius Valerius Constantinus.






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... When Constantine the Great carried the seat of empire from Rome to Constantinople he set up in the marketplace of the new capital a porphyry pillar which had come from Egypt, and of which a strange tale is told. In a vault beneath he secretly buried the ...
— The History of Freedom • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton



Words linked to "Constantine the Great" :   Emperor of Rome, Roman Emperor, Constantine



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