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Constantine I
Portrait head of Constantine I, marble, Roman, c. 325ā370 ce; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
Constantine I spent his early years in the Eastern Empire at the court of the senior emperor Diocletian in Nicomedia (modern-day Ä°zmit, Turkey).1
His time as a member of this imperial court left a lasting impression on him, as it was a Latin-speaking institution where he encountered Christianity within court circles.2