Inside over the first door I saw one of these, which shows Constantine offering the city to the Virgin Mary and Justinian offering the temple.

Back at the Kaiser's Fountain, I walked left to the streetcar stop and rode up the hill -- any car will do -- past the Column of Constantine, also known as the Burnt Column, at the top on my right.

Going through the Imperial Gate in the wall, I entered the grounds of Topkapi Palace, home of the Sultans and nerve center of the vast Ottoman Empire, and walked along a road toward another gate in the distance, past the Church of St. Irene, completed by Constantine in 330 A.D. on my left, and then, just outside the second gate, I saw a spring with a tap in the wall on my right -- the Executioner's Spring, where he washed his hands and his sword after beheading his victims.

* 1868 – Constantine I of Greece ( d. 1923 )

The conflict between Arianism and Trinitarian beliefs was the first major doctrinal confrontation in the Church after the legalization of Christianity by the Roman Emperors Constantine I and Licinius.

Constantine I ( emperor ) | Constantine burning Arian books, illustration from a compendium of canon law, ca.

He became king of the Picts in 877 when he succeeded his brother Constantine I.

Nicaea was convoked by Constantine I in May – August 325 to address the Arian position that Jesus of Nazareth is of a distinct substance from the Father.

On 6 November, both parties of the dispute met with Constantine I in Constantinople.

On the death of Emperor Constantine I, Athanasius was allowed to return to his See of Alexandria.

As a result of rises and falls in Arianism's influence after the First Council of Nicaea, Emperor Constantine I banished him from Alexandria to Trier in the Rhineland, but he was restored after the death of Constantine I by the emperor's son Constantine II.

The backstory of one of the surviving epistles, directed to Constantine I, recounts how the fame of Saint Anthony spread abroad and reached Emperor Constantine.

The location of Byzantium attracted Roman Emperor Constantine I who, in 330 AD, refounded it as an imperial residence inspired by Rome itself.

The Roman empire | Roman Basilica Aula Palatina in Trier, Germany, built in the 4th century with fired bricks as audience hall for Constantine I

These mostly range in date from the beginning of the Greek Bronze Age ( about 3200 BC ) to the reign of the Roman Emperor Constantine I in the 4th century AD.

An Eastern Christianity | Eastern Christian Icon depicting Constantine I and Christianity | Emperor Constantine and the Fathers of the First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ) as holding the Niceno – Constantinopolitan Creed of 381.

* Constantine II of Greece

* Constantine II of Greece ( born 1940 ), Olympic champion ( 1960 ) and formerly King of the Hellenes March 6, 1964 – December 8, 1974

* 1967 – Constantine II of Greece attempts an unsuccessful counter-coup against the Regime of the Colonels

Hence, even after he ceased to be Greek king, it is still standard to refer to the deposed king as Constantine II of Greece.

The two protagonists of the fateful decade 1912 – 1922: King Constantine I of Greece | Constantine I and PM Eleftherios Venizelos in the days of their close cooperation during the Second Balkan War, before the deep political and personal rift between the two materialized and led to the National Schism.

In March 1913, an anarchist, Alexandros Schinas, assassinated King George in Thessaloniki, and his son came to the throne as Constantine I. Constantine was the first Greek king born in Greece and the first to be Greek Orthodox.

Since Greece, a maritime country, could not oppose the mighty British navy, and citing the need for a respite after two wars, King Constantine favored continued neutrality, while Venizelos actively sought Greek entry in the war on the Allied side.

When Bulgaria entered the war as a German ally in October 1915, Venizelos invited Entente forces into Greece ( the Salonika Front ), for which he was again dismissed by Constantine.

Constantine was now ruling only in what was Greece before the Balkan Wars (" Old Greece "), and his government was subject to repeated humiliations from the Allies.

* 1917 – King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father Constantine I abdicates under pressure by allied armies occupying Athens.

* 1979 – Constantine Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.

* 1964 – Constantine II becomes King of Greece.

* 1922 – King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, King George II.

* 1964 – Constantine II of Greece marries Danish princess Anne-Marie.

** Constantine II becomes King of Greece, upon the death of his father King Paul.

* September 18 – In Athens, King Constantine II of Greece marries Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark, who becomes Europe's youngest Queen at age eighteen years, nineteen days.

* June 2 – King Constantine II of Greece

* December 13 – King Constantine II of Greece flees the country when his coup attempt fails.

* September 17 – King Constantine II of Greece forms a new government with Prime Minister Stephanos Stephanopoulos, in an attempt to end a 2-year-old political crisis.

* January 11 – Constantine I of Greece, King of Greece ( b. 1868 )

Beyond it I noted a small green column, about twelve feet below the present ground level -- the Serpentine Column, three entwined serpents, which once stood at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, Greece.

* 1896 – Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.

* Alexander I of Greece ( 1917 – 1920 ), King of Greece

They had initially set up wooden statues of Artemis, a bretas, ( Pausanias, ( fl. c. 160 ): Description of Greece, Book I: Attica ).< ref >

Xerxes I of Persia passed during his invasion of Greece of 480 BC and buried alive nine young men and nine maidens as a sacrifice to the river god.

Years later, a similar boat bridge would be constructed by Xerxes I on the Dardanelles ( Hellespont ) strait, during his invasion of Greece.

It was the culmination of the first attempt by Persia, under King Darius I, to subjugate Greece.

After Darius died, his son Xerxes I restarted the preparations for a second invasion of Greece, which finally began in 480 BC.

Darius then died whilst preparing to march on Egypt, and the throne of Persia passed to his son Xerxes I. Xerxes crushed the Egyptian revolt, and very quickly restarted the preparations for the invasion of Greece.

The apple of discord: King George I of Greece and Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria at Thessaloniki, December 1912.

On 29 ( 16 ) June 1913 General Savov, under direct orders of tsar Ferdinand I, issued attacking orders against both Greece and Serbia without consulting the Bulgarian government and without any official declaration of war.

Herodotus tells us that c. 482 BC Xerxes I ( the son of Darius ) had two pontoon bridges built across the width of the Hellespont at Abydos in order that his huge army could cross from Persia into Greece.

* 1845 – King George I of Greece ( d. 1913 )

* A History of Philosophy: Volume I: Greece and Rome: From the Pre-Socratics to Plotinus.

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George I of Greece | King George I of the Hellenes.

The parliamentary process developed greatly in Greece during the reign of George I.

The republic proved short-lived as Albania collapsed with the onset of World War I. Greece held the area between 1914 and 1916, and unsuccessfully tried to annex it in March 1916, however in 1917 it was driven from the area by Italy, who took over most of Albania.