Constantine ruled from Constantinople, not Roma.

P.s. don't pretends to know when you don't know and everybody else does

What if I'm pretending not to know when everyone, including myself, knows.

Constantinople was the capital of the Byzantine Empire, not the Roman Empire. Constantinople, when it was conquered by Muslims, was renamed, and is currently called Istanbul, and is in Turkey, not the Hellenic Republic. So he was Turkish in modern terms?

I consider those who consider themselves as Arab from Syria, Jordan and Lebanon who cannot trace their roots back to an Arabian tribe as all Arabised Romans. Egyptians are also an Arabised people.

There were no Turks in Anatolia at the time.

So who were they? Roman? What were their roots? Nobody is answering my damned questions!

They were mostly Greeks.

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Rome was still the capital of the Empire i believe, but Constantine ruled from Constantinople. Hellenistic culture had indeed spread very deep into anatolia and in Constantinople at this time (as well as the Levant and Egypt).

In modern terms he'd be Hellenistic Roman.

Constantine was born in Naissus, which is in modern day Serbia. He wasn't Italian in the slightest, even supposing Italian was a term that had meaning in the 4th century.

Eh when i say Roman i mean empire-wide. When you say Italian i assume you mean those born native to the peninsula.

Back then, Anatolia (Present Day Turkey) was Greek. It wasent until the Crusades that the Sultanate of Rum (Part of the Turkish Diaspora across Asia) began its expansion into the Declining Byzantine Empire. SO the Turks, originally from Central Asia *insert all the -stans*, migrated into Anatolia and expanded.

-Anatolia from the Rise of the Roman Empire to 1000 AD was Greek
-Anatolia then Gradually became Turkish following the Crusades starting from the East all the way West
-Became a Turkish Majority following the Crusades
-Nearly all Greeks were expelled following Ottoman Conquest of Constantinople


I would consider Constantine to be Roman, it is what he would have mostly identified as. He was the Roman Emperor at the time.

Constantine was a roman.The ''idea'' of ''Italian'' was not existing yet in that period.
Also, when Constantin reigned (25 July 306 AD – 29 October 312 AD / 29 October 312 – 19 September 324/ 19 September 324 – 22 May 337 ). the Roman Empire was already parted.Costantinople becomed official capital in 330.From 295 till 330, the Eastern Roman Empire was not official an empire, maybe more like a huge administrative region with functions like an empire.

You learn summat new everyday. I never knew the Greeks ever had any major role in the Roman/Byzantine Empires.

they had.After they were conquered by Romans, the Roman civilization adopted a lot of things from the Greeks.And after the West Empire fallen, the Greek civilisation influenced a lot the Byzantine empire, on all social plans.

Interesting.

yes indeed.
(i must say thanks to my history teacher )

And yet it bothers no one that he spelled "life" wrong.

I think we all knew what he meant, his cockiness compensated for his spelling anyway...

Colonel did you pass 9th grade world history? Cause you'd know all this if you had.

9th grade is what age ?