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Constantine or Qustantînah is a city:Constantine or Qustantînah (Arabic: قسنطينة ) and a wilaya (Arabic: ولاية قسنطينة ) in north-east Algeria, slightly inland, at about 80 kilometers from the coast. Regarded as the capital of eastern Algeria, it has a population of over 500,000 making it the third largest city in the country (after Algiers and Oran). It was originally settled by Phoenician migrants. It is named for Constantine I of the Roman Empire, who caused the city to ...

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You may be looking for the Yorkshire Television game show 3-2-1 321 - Events. Publication of the first blue law by Constantine I of the Roman Empire: trade is forbidden on Sundays; agriculture is allowed The Roman Catholic church is allowed to hold property 321 - Births. 321 - Deaths. Category: 321 ...

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Events November 7 - Athanasius is banished to Trier, on the charge that he prevented the corn fleet from sailing to Constantinople. Synod of Tyre. Samudragupta succeeds Chandragupta as king of the Gupta Empire. Tuoba Hena ousts Tuoba Yihuai as chieftain of Tuoba Clan. Constantine I of the Roman Empire begins construction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Births Theon of Alexandria Gregory of Nyssa Deaths Chandragupta I ...

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An empire (also known technically, abstractly or disparagingly as an imperium, and with powers known among Romans as "imperium") comprises a set of regions locally ruled by governors, viceroys or client kings in the name of an emperor. By extension, one could classify as an empire any large, multi-ethnic state ruled from a single center. Like other states, an empire maintains its political structure at least partly by coercion. Land-based empires (such as Mongol or Achaemenid Persia) tend to extend in a contiguous area; sea-bor ...

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A halo (also known as a nimbus or Gloriole) is a ring of light that surrounds an object. They are often used in religious works to depict holy or sacred figures. In Christian sacred art (Eastern and Western churches), holy persons (saints) are depicted with a halo, a golden, yellow or white circular glow, around the head. Halos, also known as icebows, are also optical phenomena that appear near or around the Sun or Moon, and sometimes near other strong light sources such as street lights. There are many types of o ...

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The halo has become a object of religious iconography in both Christian and Buddhist traditions. Halo - In Christianity. The halo appears in the art of ancient Greece and Rome, and was incorporated into Christian art sometime in the 4th century. Round halos are used to signify saints. A cross within a halo is used to represent Jesus. Triangular halos are used for representations of the Trinity. Square halo are used ...

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The modern term "empire" derives from the Latin word imperium, a word coined in what became possibly the most famous example of this sort of political structure, the Roman Empire founded in 31 BC. The first empire, however, was the empire created by Sargon of Akkad in Mesopotamia. For many centuries, the term "Empire" in the West applied exclusively to states which considered themselves to be successors to the Roman Empire, such as the Byzantine Empire, the Ho ...

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The discovery of the New World provided an opportunity for many European states to embark upon programs of imperialism on a different model, colonization. Under this model (previously trialled in the Old World in the Canary Islands and in Ireland), subject states became de jure subordinate to the imperial state, rather than de facto as in earlier empires. This led to a good deal of resentment in the client states, and therefore probably to the demise of this system b ...

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The concept of "empire" in the modern world, while still present politically, has begun to lose cohesion semantically. The only remaining country nominally ruled by an Emperor, Japan, comprises a constitutional monarchy with a population of approximately 99% ethnic Japanese. Just as monarchies (as opposed to constitutional monarchies) have largely fallen out of favor in modern times, the term "empire" itself m ...

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