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On May 22, 337, Constantine the Great, Emperor of Rome (306-37), died at the age of 47.
"Constantine I's father became the Western Roman emperor in 305. After his father's death, Constantine fought to take power. He became the Western emperor in 312 and the sole Roman emperor in 324. Constantine was also the first emperor to adhere to Christianity. He issued an edict that protected Christians in the empire and converted to Christianity on his deathbed in 337."
"Constantine I's father became the Western Roman emperor in 305. After his father's death, Constantine fought to take power. He became the Western emperor in 312 and the sole Roman emperor in 324. Constantine was also the first emperor to adhere to Christianity. He issued an edict that protected Christians in the empire and converted to Christianity on his deathbed in 337."
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He built a city on the Bosporus which became the capitol of the Eastern Roman Empire. He gave it his own name of Constantinople which we know today as Istanbul. The Eastern Empire collapsed in 1453 after a major attack and prolonged siege by the Ottoman Turks. It was at that point that IsLam became the dominant religion and superseded Christianity. Today, Islam is the official state religion of Turkey.
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Capt Gregory Prickett - Officially, it is secular. But unofficially, Islam is the only religion that is tolerated. That’s what the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1917 was all about, when an estimated one million Christian Armenians were murdered by Turkish troops.
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