Battle of Constantine
The aim of the 1836 Battle of Constantine was to conquer the Algerian city of Constantine; the attack was a French failure.
Anastasia (wife of Constantine IV)
Anastasia( c. 650 – after 711) was the Empress consort of Constantine IV of the Roman Empire.
Motherland (disambiguation)
Motherland is the place of one's birth, the place of one's ancestors, or the place of origin of an ethnic group.
Motherland may also refer to:
Maria, wife of Constantine V
Maria( Greek: Μαρία; died 751) was the second Empress consort of Constantine V of the Roman Empire.
Bardas Phokas the Elder
Bardas Phokas  (c. 878 – c. 968) was a notable Byzantine general in the first half of the 10th century, and father of Byzantine emperor Nikephoros II Phokas and the "kouropalates" Leo Phokas the Younger.
Bardas was the scion of the Phokas family, one of the great houses of the Anatolian military aristocracy, his father was Nikephoros Phokas the Elder, an eminent Byzantine general with a distinguished record of service in Italy.
In 917, he participated under the orders of his elder brother Leo in the disastrous Battle of Acheloos.
In 941, he was governor of the Theme of Armeniakon, in the area previously known as Paphlagonia.
In this year the Rus' navy under the leadership of Igor I of Kiev attacked the Empire.
Driven off from Constantinople, the Rus' landed in Bithynia and ravaged it.
Bardas kept the attackers from doing too much damage with his local militia levies until the larger Byzantine army under John Kourkouas came and drove the Rus' out.
In 945 he was appointed supreme commander of the Byzantine armies of the East by Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus.
In this command he did not make much progress against the Arab forces, being repeatedly defeated by Sayf al-Daula, emir of Aleppo.
In 953, he was defeated and severely wounded by Sayf and after further defeats, he was replaced by his son Nikephoros in 954/955.
When Nikephoros came to the throne he made his father Caesar, only a step below the imperial title.
He died about 968 at the age of 90.
Where Was I
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Dalmatius
Flavius Dalmatius( died 337), also known as Dalmatius Caesar( his name is often spelled Delmatius on contemporary coins), was a Caesar( 335–337) of the Roman Empire, and member of the Constantinian dynasty.
Dalmatius was the nephew of Constantine I.
His father, also named Flavius Dalmatius, was the half- brother of Constantine and served as censor.
Dalmatius and his brother Hannibalianus were educated at Tolosa( Toulouse) by rhetor Exuperius.
On 18 September 335, he was raised to the rank of Caesar, with the control of Thracia, Achaea and Macedonia.
Dalmatius died in late summer 337, killed by his own soldiers.
It is possible that his death was related to the purge that hit the imperial family at the death of Constantine, and organized by Constantius II with the aim of removing any possible claimant to imperial power other than the sons of the late emperor.
Place of birth
The place of birth( POB) or birthplace is the place where a person was born.
This place is often used in legal documents, together with name and date of birth, to uniquely identify a person.
As a general rule with respect to passports, the place of birth is determined to be the country that currently has" sovereignty" over the actual place of birth, regardless of when the birth actually occurred.
The place of birth is not necessarily the place where the parents of the new baby live.
If the baby is born in a hospital in another place, that place is the place of birth.
In many countries, this also means that the government requires that the birth of the new baby is registered in the place of birth.
Some countries place less or no importance on the place of birth, instead using alternative geographical characteristics for the purpose of identity documents.
For example, Sweden has used the concept of" födelsehemortdomicile of birth") since 1947.
This means that the domicile of the baby's mother is the registered place of birth.
The location of the maternity ward or other physical birthplace is considered unimportant.
Similarly, Switzerland uses the concept of" Heimatortlieu d'origineluogo d'origineplace of origin" in German, French and Italian respectively).
A child born to Swiss parents is automatically assigned the place of origin of the parent with the same last name, so the child either gets their mother's or father's place of origin.
A child born to one Swiss parent and one foreign parent acquires the place of origin of their Swiss parent.
In a Swiss passport and identity card, the holder's place of origin is stated, not their place of birth.
In some countries( primarily in the Americas), the place of birth automatically determines the nationality of the baby, a practice often referred to by the Latin phrase" jus soli".
Almost all countries outside the Americas instead attribute nationality based on the nationality( ies) of the baby's parents( referred to as" jus sanguinis").
There can be some confusion regarding the place of birth if the birth takes place in an unusual way: when babies are born on an airplane or at sea, difficulties can arise.
The place of birth of such a person depends on the law of the countries involved, which include the nationality of the plane or ship, the nationality( ies) of the parents and/ or the location of the plane or ship( if the birth occurs in the territorial waters or airspace of a country).
Some administrative forms may request the applicant's" country of birth".
It is important to determine from the requester whether the information requested refers to the applicant's" place of birth" or" nationality at birth".
For US citizens born abroad who under the US Constitution acquire US citizenship at the time of birth, the nationality at birth will be USA( American), while the place of birth would be the country in which the actual birth takes place.
Constantine Phokas
Constantine Phokas (died 953/954) was a Byzantine aristocrat and general.
Constantine was the youngest son of Bardas Phokas the Elder, and brother of the general and later emperor Nikephoros II Phokas and the general Leo Phokas the Younger.
When his father was appointed as Domestic of the Schools (commander-in-chief of the Byzantine army) in 945, Constantine was appointed "strategos" (military governor) of the theme of Seleucia, on the Empire's southeastern border with the Muslim world.
He participated in his father's campaigns against the Muslims, and was captured by the Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo, Sayf al-Dawla, at the Battle of Marash in 953.
Constantine took part in Sayf al-Dawla's subsequent triumphal entry into Aleppo, but he soon fell ill and died (probably in early 954).
Some Byzantine sources suggest that he was poisoned by Sayf al-Dawla after refusing to convert to Islam, while Arab sources claim that he was poisoned by Byzantine agents after Sayf al-Dawla refused a huge ransom offered by Bardas Phokas.
Whatever the truth, Constantine's death seems to have been blamed on Sayf al-Dawla by the Byzantines, and many Arab captives, including some of the Hamdanid emir's relatives, were executed as a result.
Some Byzantine and Arab sources claim that this resulted in the failure of a peace embassy sent by the Byzantines in June 954 under Paul Monomachos, but modern scholars discount this.
Basilica of Constantine
Basilica of Constantine can refer to:

Question: Where did Constantine Phokas's father die?