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Noun: Constantine the Great
  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)
    - Constantine, Constantine I, Flavius Valerius Constantinus

Type of: Emperor of Rome, Roman Emperor

Encyclopedia: Constantine the Great