Constantine - Definition
constantine
n 1: 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) [syn:
Constantine, Constantine I, Constantine the Great,
Flavius Valerius Constantinus]
2: a walled city in northeastern Algeria to the east of Algiers;
was destroyed in warfare in the 4th century and rebuilt by
Constantine I