Constantine the Great
4 Minster Yard, York YO1 7JB
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4 Minster Yard, York YO1 7JB
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Constantine I | Biography, Accomplishments, Death, & Facts | Britannica
Constantine I, byname Constantine the Great, Latin in full Flavius Valerius Constantinus, (born February 27, after 280 ce?, Naissus, Moesia [now Niš, Serbia]—died May 22, 337, Ancyrona, near Nicomedia, Bithynia [now İzmit, Turkey]), first Roman emperor to profess Christianity. He not only initiated the evolution of the empire into a Christian state but also provided the impulse for a distinctively Christian culture that prepared the way for the growth of Byzantine and Western medieval culture. Constantine was born probably in the later 280s ce. A typical product of the military governing class of the later 3rd century, he was the
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