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Noun: Constantine  'kón-stun`teen
  1. A walled city in northeastern Algeria to the east of Algiers; was destroyed in warfare in the 4th century and rebuilt by Constantine I
     
  2. 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)
    - Constantine I, Constantine the Great, Flavius Valerius Constantinus

Type of: city, Emperor of Rome, metropolis, Roman Emperor, urban center [US], urban centre [Brit, Cdn]

Part of: Algeria, Algerie, Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria

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