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Constantine burning books by Arian heretics ('Heretici Arriani'), from a 9th-century manuscript now in Vercelli. Constantine was the first emperor to stop the persecution of Christians and to legalize Christianity, along with all other religions/cults in the Roman Empire.
Constantine (/ ˈ k ɒ n s t ən t aɪ n / or / ˈ k ɒ n s t ən t iː n /; Latin: Cōnstantīnus, Greek: Κωνσταντῖνος, Kōnstantînos) is a masculine and feminine (in French for example) given name and surname which is derived from the Latin name Constantinus, [1] a hypocoristic of the first names Constans and Constantius, both meaning "constant, steadfast" in Latin. [2]
Constantine's death marked the definitive end of the Eastern Roman Empire, which traced its origin to Constantine the Great's foundation of Constantinople as the Roman Empire's new capital in 330. Constantine was the fourth son of Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos and Serbian noblewoman Helena Dragaš. Little is known of his early life, but from ...
Constantine Palaiologos (middle) with his father and mother The northern facade of the Palace of the Porphyrogenitus. Constantine Palaiologos or Palaeologus (Greek: Κωνσταντῖνος Παλαιολόγος; 1261 – 5 May 1306) was a Byzantine prince of the Palaiologos dynasty, who also served as a general in the wars against the Serbs and Turks.
The first name Konstantin (Cyrillic: Константин) is a derivation from the Latin name Constantinus (Constantine) in some European languages, such as Bulgarian, Russian, Estonian and German. As a Christian given name, it refers to the memory of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great.
Constantine X 1009–1067 r. 1059–1067: Eudokia Makrembolitissa 1021–1096, regent 1067: Romanos IV d. 1072 r. 1068–1071: Isaac I 1005–1061 r. 1057–1059:
Constantine was born in June 1940 in Athens to Prince Paul, the younger brother of Greece's King George II, and Princess Federica of Hanover. Prince Philip was his uncle. Soon, the Greek royals ...
Constantine IV was portrayed by Iossif Surchadzhiev in the 1981 Bulgarian movie Aszparuh, directed by Ludmil Staikov. Constantine IV is the subject of the song "Imperator" ("Emperor"), released by the Bulgarian heavy metal band Epizod in their 2012 album Moyata molitva ("My prayer").