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As Constantine’s interests shifted eastward following his defeat of Licinius in 324 CE, he invested heavily in two cities. On the one hand, Constantinople, ancient Byzantion, was a city without a significant history that needed to resonate as the capital of an empire. Jerusalem, on the other hand, was a city with too much history, but without a visible Christian presence. Both cities were desperately in need of makeovers to situate them politically, religiously, and ideologically at the heart of Constantine’s evolving concept of empire.