Constantine II
c. 316 CE–c. 340 CE · Arles (Provence)
Constantine II (316–340 CE), eldest son of Constantine the Great, ruled the western provinces (Gaul, Hispania, and Britain) as co-emperor alongside his brothers Constantius II and Constans after their father's death in 337. Asserting a claim to seniority over the youngest brother, Constans, he invaded Italy in 340 and was killed in an ambush near Aquileia. His brief, dynastically focused reign left no documented dealings with figures of the Jewish, Christian-conciliar, or Greek philosophical traditions.
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Arles (Provence)ארלProvence, France
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About Arles (Provence)
Arles, on the Rhône at the head of the Camargue delta in Provence, southern France, began as a Greek trading post and became the Roman city of Arelate, whose monuments are a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The emperor Constantine II was born there in 316, and in 314 it hosted the first church council called by Constantine I. Its bishops were leading figures of the church in Gaul, above all Caesarius, bishop from 502 to 542. Arles also had one of the oldest Jewish communities in the region, documented from the fifth century, and was a centre of medieval Provençal Jewry, where the translator Samuel ibn Tibbon lived, until the expulsion orders of 1498–1501.
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