WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Constantine I, byname Constantine the Great, Latin in full Flavius Valerius Constantinus, (born February 27, after 280 ce?, Naissus, Moesia [now Niš, Serbia]-died May 22, 337, Ancyrona, near Nicomedia, Bithynia [now İzmit, Turkey]), first Roman emperor to profess Christianity.

Detailed explanation-2: -Constantine was the first emperor to stop Christian persecutions and to legalize Christianity, as well as all other religions and cults in the Roman Empire. In February 313, Constantine met with Licinius in Milan, where they developed the Edict of Milan.

Detailed explanation-3: -Constantine was to reign as sole emperor from 324 until his death in May 337. We possess abundant, if often one-sided, contemporary accounts, and these have certainly helped to reinforce the idea of the inevitability of Constantine’s rise and his subsequent casting in the role of the first Christian emperor.

Detailed explanation-4: -The founder of the Byzantine Empire and its first emperor, Constantine the Great, moved the capital of the Roman Empire to the city of Byzantium in 330 CE, and renamed it Constantinople.

Detailed explanation-5: -Constantine I was a Roman emperor who ruled early in the 4th century. He was the first Christian emperor and saw the empire begin to become a Christian state.