The victories in the second war gave a further boost to Constantine's popularity, with him being widely acclaimed as " Bulgar-slayer ", in imitation of the Byzantine emperor Basil II.

The landmark hundredth issue gave more detail on John Constantine's father, and the abusive relationship that they had shared.

But her statue endured during the revolutionary reign of Sulla and became a model for future Roman women culminating with the portrait said to be of Helena, Emperor Constantine's mother four hundred years later ; however, the base of Cornelia's statue was altered during the conservative attempts of later Roman reformers in which the base of her statue that gave reference to her famous sons was filed away and replaced with the inscription as “ daughter of Africanus ” rather than “ mother of the Grachii .” 6

After Constantine's death, the prestige given to the orthodox cause in the Arianist controversy by the support of the venerable Hosius led the Arians to bring pressure to bear upon Constantius II, who had him summoned to Milan where he declined to condemn Athanasius nor to extend communion to Arians.

Constantine's reforms entailed the reservation of this office for members of the senatorial class, and its prestige and authority were raised to the highest level, so that contemporary writers refer to it as the " supreme office ".

In 323 he was the bearer and possibly the writer of Constantine's letter to Bishop Alexander of Alexandria and Arius his deacon, bidding them cease disturbing the peace of the church ; and, on the failure of the negotiations in Egypt, it was doubtless with the active concurrence of Hosius that the Council of Nicaea was convened in 325.

It was agreed that, next spring, Sphrantzes would sail for Georgia to bring the bride to Constantinople, but Constantine's plans were overtaken by the tragic events of 1453.

Selected as one of the last popes of the Byzantine Papacy, the defining moment of Constantine's pontificate was his 710 / 711 visit to Constantinople where he compromised with Justinian II on the Trullan canons of the Quinisext Council.

Constantine's successor Pope Gregory II accompanied him to Constantinople as a deacon.

However, Constantine's primary motivation for the trip was to " forestall " a rift between Rome and Constantinople over the Trullan decrees.

The four ( as evidenced by their staying behind ) were opposed to Constantine's new policy of rapproachment with Constantinople.

The fact of Constantine's having been summoned to Constantinople was the real proof that the " imperial writ still ran in Rome ".

The new emperor Philippikos Bardanes was an adherent of Monothelitism, rejected the arrangements of the Third Council of Constantinople, and demanded Constantine's support of the view that Christ had only one will.

* Constantinopolis or Constantinople (" Constantine's city "), the former name for Istanbul, Turkey

Informed by the local Byzantine governor of William's actions, Michael VIII sent an army under the command of his half-brother, Constantine, against William, but the expedition was unsuccessful, the Byzantines first being routed at the Battle of Prinitza in 1263 and then, after Constantine's return to Constantinople, suffering a heavy defeat at the Battle of Makryplagi in 1264.

Shortly after Simeon's visit to Constantinople, Constantine's mother Zoe returned to the palace on the insistence of the young emperor and immediately proceeded to eliminate the regents.

Following Constantine's victory over co-emperor Licinius at the Battle of Chrysopolis ( Üsküdar ) in 324, Nicomedia served as an interim capital city for Constantine the Great between 324 and 330, until the nearby Byzantium was officially declared Nova Roma ( later known as Constantinople, present-day Istanbul ).

Having failed to carry out the Constantinople coup, King Constantine's government once more reverted to the plan for the proclamation of an independent Ionia.

Approximately four times larger than today's cathedral, this church was one of Constantine's great imperial foundations, ranking with other major churches at Rome, Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Bethlehem.

Hellenization can also refer to the medieval Byzantine Empire and Constantine's founding of Constantinople ( Eastern Roman Empire that was Hellenized ).

After putting down the revolt, Emperor Constantine V ( r. 741 – 775 ) reformed the old guard units of Constantinople into the new tagmata regiments, which were meant to provide the emperor with a core of professional and loyal troops, both as a defense against provincial revolts, and also, at the time, as a formation devoted to Constantine's iconoclastic policies.

He maintained that the transfer of the imperial authority from Rome to Constantinople was national and not geographic, and therefore did not belong to the Latins occupying Constantinople: Constantine's heritage was passed on to the Hellenes, so he argued, and they alone were its inheritors and successors.

Constantine's son Constantius II, who had become Emperor of the eastern part of the Empire, actually encouraged the Arians and set out to reverse the Nicene creed.

Constantine's death in 952 is recorded by the Irish annals, who enter it among ecclesiastics.

He is pardoned by Constantine I as a result of the supplication of his wife Constantia ( who is Constantine's halfsister ), and banished to Thessalonica as a private citizen.

Eleven of Constantine's thirteen companions who can be identified by name ( two bishops, three priests, and all the ranking members of the papal chancellery and household ) were also of Eastern extraction.

Of the battle itself, not much is known – Constantine's forces defeated Maxentius's troops, who retreated to the Tiber, and in the chaos of the fleeing army trying to cross the river, Maxentius fell into the water and drowned.

James Young Simpson, who had written several articles on archaeology, observed that there were contradictory accounts concerning the location of Constantine's death.

Constantine's response to this tightening circle of enemies was a final desperate gamble: he marched on Italy with the remaining troops left to him, encouraged by the entreaties of one Allobich who wanted to replace Honorius with a more capable ruler.

Constantine's Praetorian prefect Decimus Rusticus, who had replaced Apollinaris a year earlier, abandoned Constantine, to be caught up in the new rebellion of Jovinus in the Rhineland.

Christian Sabbathkeepers, who never accepted Emperor Constantine's edict in 321 A. D., the first enforcing Christian worship on Sunday rather than on Sabbath, were demonized and accused of witchcraft ; hence, the accusatory nomenclature, " witches ' sabbath.

This sabotaged Constantine's attempts to ally with the Pope against the Normans, who had taken advantage of Maniakes ' disappearance to take over Southern Italy.

Constantine's family name Monomachos (" one who fights alone ") was inherited by his Kievan grandson, Vladimir II Monomakh.

He was supported by a number of local Gallo-Roman nobles who had survived Constantine's defeat.

Her personal assistant, who was left to deal with the situation, wrongly sent the original letter of invitation ( containing Constantine's hand-written note ) back to the school.

Following Constantine's deathbed conversion in 337 all emperors adopted Christianity, except for Julian the Apostate who, during his brief reign, attempted unsuccessfully to re-instate paganism.

Hetoum and Isabella's marriage in 1226 had been a forced one by Hetoum's father Constantine of Baberon, who had arranged for Queen Isabella's first husband to be murdered so as to put Constantine's own son Hetoum in place as a co-ruler with Isabella.

Under severe pressure from Theodore, Tarasios excommunicated the priest who had conducted Constantine's second marriage.

She had also sworn on Constantine's deathbed not to marry again, and had even imprisoned and exiled Romanos Diogenes, who was suspected of aspiring to the throne.

Aiah then effectively runs a chonah of enormous scale, misleading the Authority, dealing with her Barkazi extended family ( who want a piece of whatever action she is in on ) and the local organized crime group, keeping her Jaspeeri husband ( working in a distant metropolis ) in the dark, and avoiding the potentially lethal attentions of Constantine's right-hand-woman, Sorya.

Constantine's brother-in-law Artabasdos, who was kouropalates (" master of the palace "), and commanded both the Opsikion theme and the Armeniac theme, took advantage of the new Emperor's absence from the capital to seize the throne.

( The same book was retranslated in the twelfth century by Stephen of Antioch, who was dismissive of Constantine's translation.

The Turks who had been lent to him by the Seljuk Sultan Suleyman I followed Constantine's example and deserted.

Mainly on the strength of his fielding, Austin secured Constantine's selection for the 1923 West Indian tour of England ; it was a surprising choice, as there were other candidates who appeared to have stronger claims.

* Constantine's Dream ( 329 x 190 cm ) Emperor Constantine the Great, before the battle of Milvian Bridge, is awakened by an angel who shows him the cross in heaven.