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When and where was Constantine I born?

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Constantine I was born on February 27, likely after 280 CE, in Naissus, Moesia (modern-day Niš, Serbia).1

It is important to distinguish him from the usurping Roman emperor Constantine, who was proclaimed emperor in Britain in 407 CE and died in 411 CE.2