ABSTRACT
Flavius Constantinus was born in the ancient town of Naissus about a hundred miles south of the lower Danube River in a Roman province long known as Moesia Superior – now the city of Ni3 in the state of Serbia. As the empire had recently lost its Dacian territories above the Danube, the western area of Moesia was being reorganized into a military frontier province known as Dacia Ripensis around the time of the future emperor’s birth. Located along a military road, and close to the junction of the Ni2ava and Morava Rivers, tributaries of the Danube, Naissus was in a strategic area of the eastern European provinces of the Roman Empire.1
