Associations to the word «Constantine»

Wiktionary

CONSTANTINE, proper noun. A male given name.

Dictionary definition

CONSTANTINE, noun. 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, noun. A walled city in northeastern Algeria to the east of Algiers; was destroyed in warfare in the 4th century and rebuilt by Constantine I.

Wise words

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