On May 11,330, A.D.,, its name was changed again, this time to Constantinople after its emperor, Constantine.

Erected on the site of pagan temples and three previous St. Sophias, the first of which was begun by Constantine, this fourth church was started by Justinian in 532 and completed twenty years later.

It stands in the middle of what was once the Forum of Constantine, who brought it from Rome.

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.

Although he was committed to maintaining what the church had defined at Nicaea, Constantine was also bent on pacifying the situation and eventually became more lenient toward those condemned and exiled at the council.

Eusebius and Theognis remained in the Emperor's favour, and when Constantine, who had been a catechumen much of his adult life, accepted baptism on his deathbed, it was from Eusebius of Nicomedia.

First married to Michael VII Doukas and secondly to Nikephoros III Botaneiates, she was preoccupied with the future of her son by Michael VII, Constantine Doukas.

However, this situation changed drastically when Alexios ' first son John II Komnenos was born in 1087: Anna's engagement to Constantine was dissolved, and she was moved to the main Palace to live with her mother and grandmother.

Alexios became estranged from Maria, who was stripped of her imperial title and retired to a monastery, and Constantine Doukas was deprived of his status as co-emperor.

Led by a pretender claiming to be Constantine Diogenes, a long-dead son of the Emperor Romanos IV, the Cumans crossed the mountains and raided into eastern Thrace until their leader was eliminated at Adrianople.

Constantine was forced to become a monk by his nephew Andronikos III Palaiologos.

The antipope Felix died, as stated above, on a 22 November, and his death was not a martyr's, occurring when the Peace of Constantine had been in force for half a century.

After the death of his master the school of Syria was dispersed, and Aedesius seems to have modified his doctrines out of fear of Constantine, and took refuge in divination.

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.

He continued to lead the conflict against the Arians for the rest of his life and was engaged in theological and political struggles against the Emperors Constantine the Great and Constantius II and powerful and influential Arian churchmen, led by Eusebius of Nicomedia and others.

At that meeting, Athanasius was accused of threatening to interfere with the supply of grains from Egypt, and, without any kind of formal trial, was exiled by Constantine to Trier in the Rhineland.

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.

After Emperor Constantine ’ s reforms in AD 318, the border between Gaul and Italy ( two of the four praetorian prefectures of the Roman Empire ) was located east of Turicum, crossing the River Linth between Lake Walen and Lake Zurich, where a castle and garrison looked over Turicum ’ s safety.

The theme of Moses at the crossing of the Red Sea was taken up by the sycophants of Constantine and applied to the battle of the Milvian Bridge ( 312 ).

The character, both a stage magician and a real magician like her father Giovanni " John " Zatara, is known for her involvement with the Justice League, her retconned childhood association with Batman, and her crossing of the Vertigo line with characters such as romantic partner John Constantine and protégé Timothy Hunter.

Nevertheless, Constantine identified the site of Byzantium as the right place: a place where an emperor could sit, readily defended, with easy access to the Danube or the Euphrates frontiers, his court supplied from the rich gardens and sophisticated workshops of Roman Asia, his treasuries filled by the wealthiest provinces of the Empire.

* Nicomedia in northwestern Asia Minor ( modern Izmit in Turkey ), a base for defence against invasion from the Balkans and Persia's Sassanids was the capital of Diocletian, the eastern ( and most senior ) Augustus ; in the final reorganisation by Constantine the Great, in 318, the equivalent of his domain, facing the most redoubtable foreign enemy, Sassanid Persia, became the pretorian prefecture Oriens ' the East ', the core of later Byzantium.

* Emperor Constantine the Great gives the ancient Roman town Drepana ( Asia Minor ) the name Helenopolis, after his mother Helena, and builds a church in honour of the martyr St. Lucian.

Romanos Diogenes was the son of Constantine Diogenes and a member of a prominent and powerful Cappadocian family, connected by birth to most of the great aristocratic nobles in Asia Minor.

This caused great dissatisfaction not only to the newly liberated populations in Asia Minor, but also to the Great Powers who opposed the return of Constantine.

His reign constitutes an usurpation against Constantine V, who had retained control of several themes in Asia Minor.

In June 741 or 742, after the accession of Leo's son Constantine V on the throne, Artabasdus resolved to seize the throne and attacked his brother-in-law while the latter was traversing Asia Minor to fight the Arabs on the eastern frontier.

But dressed in his beggar's garb, and aided by the friendly Arab tribes as well as the people of Syria and Asia, he eluded all attempts to seize him, living into the reign of Tiberius II Constantine.

The title was used by the states of the Hunnic circle in China, Europe, and Central Asia, among them the Hungarian Gyula, the Hephthalite Huns ' Gula ( in Byzantine sources also Golla ), it is a component in the Indian Huna Mihirakula ’ s name, Constantine Porphyrogenitus noted it as Gila and Yula among the Kangar Pachinaks in his De Administrando Imperio ( ca.

The Emperor Constantine III ( 641 ) transferred a part of the Slavs from the Balkans ( Vardar region ) to Asia Minor.

Following this naval victory, Constantine crossed over to Asia Minor.

On 1 March 317, Constantine was made Caesar, and at the age of seven in 323, took part in his father's campaign against the Sarmatians.

His military career continued when Constantine I made his son field commander during the 332 campaign against the Goths.

From 335 to 336, Constantine, continuing his Danube campaign, defeated many Gothic tribes.

After the campaign in Macedonia was over, a large part of the Army was redeployed to Epirus, where Crown Prince Constantine himself assumed command.

But when, in early 1915, the Allies asked for Greek help in the Dardanelles campaign, offering Cyprus in exchange, their diverging views became apparent: Constantine had been educated in Germany, was married to Sophia of Prussia, sister of Kaiser Wilhelm, and was convinced of the Central Powers ' victory.

His son Constantine I joins him on campaign and they win a brilliant victory.

* Crispus, eldest son of Constantine I, leads a victorious campaign against the Franks, assuring twenty years of peace along the Rhine frontier.

After this arrangement Constantine rules the dioceses Pannonia and Macedonia, and established his residence at Sirmium, from where he prepares a campaign against the Goths and Sarmatians.

Constantine, disappointed in his hopes to become a Caesar, fled the court of Galerius after Constantius had asked Galerius to release his son as Constantius was ill. Constantine joined his father's court at the coast of Gaul, just as he was preparing to campaign in Britain.

Licinius kept himself busy with a campaign against the Sarmatians in 318, but temperatures rose again in 321 when Constantine pursued some Sarmatians, who had been ravaging some territory in his realm, across the Danube into what was technically Licinius ’ s territory.

In 308, after the elevation of Licinius to Augustus, Maximinus and Constantine were declared filii Augustorum (" sons of the Augusti "), but Maximinus probably started styling himself after Augustus during a campaign against the Sassanids in 310.

The Roman Emperor Constantine called Constantine II up from Galia to run a campaign north of the Danube.

Constantine, who was not allowed to return to Greece to campaign, accepted the results of the plebiscite.

These were promptly eliminated ; thus, Constantine began preparations for a new campaign against the Bulgarians – during which he died on September 14, 775.

The £ 12m television and print advertising campaign featuring Woodall and Constantine is one of largest ever seen for a home shopping and internet-based company.

After the campaign in Macedonia was over, a large part of the Army was redeployed to Epirus, where Crown Prince Constantine himself assumed command.

No further information is known after this period and scholars believe the XX legion was still stationed in Britain when the usurper Constantine III pulled the bulk of the military forces from there in the year 407 for his doomed campaign on the continent.

The death of Leo VI on 11 May 912 and the accession of his infant son Constantine VII under the guidance of Leo's brother Alexander, who expelled Leo's wife Zoe from the palace, constituted a great opportunity for Simeon to attempt another campaign against Constantinople, the conquest of which remained the dream of his life.

Promoted commandant in 1835, he distinguished himself under Marshal Clauzel in the campaign against Ahmed Pasha, bey of Constantine, and became lieutenant-colonel in 1837.

In World War II, during the campaign in North Africa ( 1942 – 43 ), Constantine and the nearby city of Sétif were used by the Allied forces as operational bases.

As it celebrates the victory of Constantine, the new " historic " friezes illustrating his campaign in Italy convey the central meaning: the praise of the emperor, both in battle and in his civilian duties.

These reliefs depict scenes from the Italian campaign of Constantine against Maxentius which was the reason for the construction of the monument.