English noun: Constantine I | |||
1. | Constantine I (person) 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) | ||
Synonyms | Constantine, Constantine the Great, Flavius Valerius Constantinus | ||
Instance hypernym | Emperor of Rome, Roman Emperor | ||