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  Rome and Romania, Roman Emperors, Byzantine Emperors, etc.
Decius and Herennius were killed in battle by the Goths in 251 -- the only Roman Emperors to die in battle (against external enemies) besides Julian (against the Persians, 363), Valens (against the Goths again, 378), Nicephorus I (against the Bulgars, 811), and Constantine XI (with the fall of Constantinople to the Turks, 1453).
The result of the conference was the demotion of Constantine to Caesar (again), the appointment of Lincinius as Augustus, the second retirement of Maximian, and the declaration of Maxentius as an outlaw.
Constantine's Empire went to his three sons, who might have shared it with their cousins, but killed them instead.
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Constantine was more interested in reconsolidating the Empire, Through a series of battles between the East and West, Licinius and Constantine had rejoined the Empire by 314, but they now competed for sole control of the reunified state.
Once againt the Roman Empire was ruled by a single ruler, but with the death of Constantine in 337, civil war erupted between his three sons, dividing the Empire into three parts.
What is notable is that Constantius II focused most of his powerin the East, and that he is often regarded as the first Emperor of the Byzantine Empire, as it was under his rule that the city of Byzantium, only recently refounded as Constantinople, was truly developed as a capital.
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 Roman Empire - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Roman Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Roman state in the centuries following its reorganization under the leadership of Caesar Augustus.
Roman titles of power were adopted by successor states and other entities with imperial pretensions, including the Frankish kingdom, the Holy Roman Empire, the first and second Bulgarian empires(see List of Bulgarian monarchs), the Russian/Kiev dynasties (see czars), and the German Empire (see Kaiser).
The Roman defeat at the Battle of Adrianople in 378, along with the death of Emperor Valens, were each deciding moments in the division of the Empire.
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 Encyclopedia: Constantine II
Antipope Constantine II was an antipope from 767 _ 768, during the reign of Pope Stephen IV.
Constantine II (874?–952) was king of Scotland from 900 to 942 or 943.
Constantine II (born June 2, 1940), was the last King of Greece from March 6, 1964 to December 8, 1974.
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Constantine II was born at Arelate, the son of Constantine and Fausta.
The fact of Constantine II being made consul, too young even to be able to sign his own name yet, did much to support Licinius' accusation that Constantine was seeking to advance his sons at the expense of Licinius' son.
Was the reason for the murder of their cousins not have to share territory with them, then Constantine II failed to secure any additional territory for himself, remaining in control of only Britain, Gaul and Spain, though he, the eldest among the brothers, was acknowledged as the senior Augustus by the other two.
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 Chapter XVIII: Character Of Constantine And His Sons. Part II. - History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The younger Constantine was appointed to hold his court in Gaul; and his brother Constantius exchanged that department, the ancient patrimony of their father, for the more opulent, but less martial, countries of the East.
As soon as Constantine had declared himself in favor of the weaker party, the haughty Araric, king of the Goths, instead of expecting the attack of the legions, boldly passed the Danube, and spread terror and devastation through the province of Maesia.
The body of Constantine adorned with the vain symbols of greatness, the purple and diadem, was deposited on a golden bed in one of the apartments of the palace, which for that purpose had been splendidly furnished and illuminated.
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 Constantius II
Constantius II Constantius II, Roman Emperor (337 - 361), was the middle of the three sons of Constantine I the Great and Fausta.
Constantine II received Britain, Gaul and Spain; Constans ruled Italy, Africa, and the Illyrian provinces; and Constantius ruled Constantinople and the East.
This division changed when Constantine II died in 340, trying to overthrow Constans in Italy, and Constans become sole ruler in the Western half of the empire.
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 constans ii
Constans II Heraclius Pogonatus was Byzantine emperor from 641-668.
He was the son of Constantine III, and due to the rumours that Heraclonas and Martina had poisoned Constantine III he was named co-emperor in 641.
In 661 he campaigned against the Lombards in Italy, and decided to move the capital of the empire to Sicily; this was very unpopular, and he was assassinated in 668.
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Constantius II was born in Illyricum in August AD 317, the son of Constantine the Great and Fausta, and was proclaimed Caesar in AD 323.
Constantius II, preparing for the fight with Magnentius in the west, raised his 26 year-old cousin Constantius Gallus to the rank of Caesar (junior emperor) in order to have him take charge of the administration of the east whilst he would be commanding his armies.
Constantius II was left as the sole emperor of the Roman empire.
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 AllRefer.com - Constantine II, Roman emperor (Ancient History, Rome, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Constantine II, Roman emperor, Ancient History, Rome, Biographies
Constantine II 316–40, Roman emperor, son of Constantine I. When the empire was divided at the death (337) of Constantine I, among the brothers Constantius II, Constans I, and Constantine II, Constantine II received Britain, Gaul, and Spain.
Maintaining that he had been cheated, he demanded some of the territory given Constans I.
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 The [True] ORDER OF SAINT CONSTANTINE THE GREAT - ROMAN EMPIRE to NEW BYZANTIUM
Constantine followed Diocletian to the imperial city of Nicomedia in Asia Minor, while Helen, now divorced, took up residence in Drepanum, a small town near Nicomedia, in order to be near her son.
Constantine’s marriage to Fausta, daughter of Maximian and Eutropia, paralleled Constantius’ marriage to Theodora, stepdaughter of Maximian by Eutropia’s former marriage.
Constantine’s city, prior to its fall, had also survived the invasion and plundering of its wealth by its Western counterpart on the pretext of the Crusades.
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 CONSTANTINE II
Constantine went into exile in 1967, after a failed attempt to overthrow the military dictatorship that had seized power following instability that had resulted from the King's clash with his prime minister, George Papandreou.
Constantine II's sister, Sophia, is married to King Juan Carlos of Spain.
Constantine II and Queen Anne-Marie live in exile in London, where the exiled monarch is a close friend of The Prince of Wales and a godfather to Prince William of Wales.
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 Constantine II of the Roman Empire - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The eldest son of Constantine I the Great and Fausta, he was born at Arles in present day South of France.
Following the death of his father in 337, Constantine II became joint Emperor with his brothers Constantius II and Constans.
His section of the Empire was Gaul, Britain, Spain and part of Africa.
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 Roman Emperors - DIR -Constantine II
Constantine II, whose full name was Flavius Claudius Constantinus, was the son of Constantine I and Fausta.
Following the death of their father on 22 May 337, and the subsequent murder of other relatives and heirs,[[9]] Constantine II and his two brothers met in the first part of September 337 in Pannonia where they were acclaimed Augusti by the army to apportion the empire among themselves.
The authors of PLRE wrongly claim that Constantine II was a bastard of Constantine I (A. Jones, J. Martindale, and J. Morris, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire [Cambridge, 1971], s.
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 Constantine II from Michael Grant's "The Roman Emperors"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He was Constantine the Great's second son, and was stated to be the child of the empress Fausta; but if his birth was correctly dated to February 317, this cannot have been so, since she is known to have given birth to Constantius II in August of the same year.
The appointment of the infant Constantine II to consulships in 320 and 321 (in association first with his father and then with Crispus, who had been consul once before) contributed largely to his father's estrangement from Licinius, who felt that his own son had been passed over, and acted unilaterally to rectify this omission.
In about 322, Constantine II was already able to sign his own name, amid rejoicings at court, and in 324 (the year of Licinius' final defeat), Crispus and he became consuls for the third time.
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 UNRV History - Roman Empire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Raetia or also known as Rhaetia in ancient geography was the Roman Province that was bounded on the west by the country of the Helvetii, on the east by Noricum, on the north by Vindelicia and on the south by Cisalpine Gaul has now it's own map of map of Raetia.
The biography section is being expanded with an addition on the Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus.
Constantine II the eldest son of Constantine I the Great and Fausta was Roman Emperor from AD 337 to AD 340.
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Emperor of Eastern Roman Empire CONSTANTINE VII died in 959.
Emperor of the Roman Empire CONSTANTIUS in Constantine in conflict for the crown.
after the Empire was divided between the brothers, Constantine II was killed in 340 when he invaded one of his brother's parts of the Empire.
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Constantine II of the Roman Empire (317 - 340), Roman Emperor 337 - 340
Constantine II of Greece (born 6/2/1940), King of Greece March 6, 1964 - December 8, 1974
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 ORB Online Encyclopedia--Collapse of the Roman Empire
This second group of historians places the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire at various dates between 395 and 461 and their interpretations focus on the financial problems faced by the Empire.
Far more important was the division of the empire in 395 between Arcadius and Honorius, the two sons of Theodosius, which robbed the Empire of strategic depth, with few transfers of money or troops between the two parts.
The frequent occasions on which the Roman army was forced to fight itself caused a constant drain of resources, both financial and personnel, resources that might have been turned against external enemies.
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 'The Roman Empire under Constantine'
(The Emperors: Constantine, Constantine II, Constans, Constantius II, Julian "The Apostate", Jovian, Valens, Valentinian, Gratian, and Theodosius)
In accordance with the Roman "Julian calendar," the "Saturnalia" festival appears to have taken place on December 17th; it was preceded by the "Consualia" near December 15th, and followed by the "Opalia" on December 19th.
On the new Roman Catholic Gregorian calendar the shortest annual day was numerically shifted back 10 days to the 22nd of December, where it remains to this day; while the original order of the seven days of the week remained unchanged.
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 The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire II
The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire II The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon — In The West
A nation of Romans was gradually formed in the provinces, by the double expedient of introducing colonies, and of admitting the most faithful and deserving of the provincials to the freedom of Rome.
All the other quarters of the capital, and all the provinces of the empire, were embellished by the same liberal spirit of public magnificence, and were filled with amphitheatres, theatres, temples, porticos, triumphal arches, baths, and aqueducts, all variously conducive to the health, the devotion, and the pleasures of the meanest citizen.
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 Chapter XVI: Conduct Towards The Christians, From Nero To Constantine. Part II. - History Of The Decline And Fall Of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It was not long, perhaps, before the Jews themselves, animated with a fiercer zeal and a more jealous faith, perceived the gradual separation of their Nazarene brethren from the doctrine of the synagogue; and they would gladly have extinguished the dangerous heresy in the blood of its adherents.
In the tenth year of the reign of Nero, the capital of the empire was afflicted by a fire which raged beyond the memory or example of former ages.
Among the Christians who were brought before the tribunal of the emperor, or, as it seems more probable, before that of the procurator of Judaea, two persons are said to have appeared, distinguished by their extraction, which was more truly noble than that of the greatest monarchs.
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 Chapter Emperors Arcadius, Eutropius, Theodosius II. of History of The Decline And Fall of The Roman Empire by Gibbon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Catholics retreated to the baths of Constantine, and afterwards to the fields; where they were still pursued and insulted by the guards, the bishops, and the magistrates.
The fatal day of the second and final exile of Chrysostom was marked by the conflagration of the cathedral, of the senate-house, and of the adjacent buildings; and this calamity was imputed, without proof, but not without probability, to the despair of a persecuted faction.
The archbishops of the East, who might blush that their predecessors had been the enemies of Chrysostom, were gradually disposed, by the firmness of the Roman pontiff, to restore the honors of that venerable name.
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 Constantine II, Roman emperor
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 Constantine II Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
This page was last modified 14:18, 12 May 2005.
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 Chapter Emperors Arcadius, Eutropius, Theodosius II. of History of The Decline And Fall of The Roman Empire by Gibbon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
was stripped of his ample fortunes by an Imperial rescript, and banished to Pityus, on the Euxine, the last frontier of the Roman world; where he subsisted by the precarious mercy of the Barbarians, till he could obtain, after the fall of Eutropius, a milder exile at Sidon, in Phnicia.
His immense riches were confiscated in the name of the emperor, and for the benefit of the favorite; and he was doomed to perpetual exile a Oasis, a solitary spot in the midst of the sandy deserts of Libya.
Secluded from all human converse, the master-general of the Roman armies was lost forever to the world; but the circumstances of his fate have been related in a various and contradictory manner.
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