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Although he earned his honorific of "The Great" from Christian historians long after he had died, he could have claimed the title on his military achievements alone. In addition to reuniting the empire under one emperor, Constantine won major victories over the Franks and Alamanni ([[306]]–[[308]]), the Franks again ([[313]]–[[314]]), the [[Visigoths]] in [[332]] and the [[Sarmatians]] in [[334]]. In fact, by [[336]], Constantine had actually reoccupied most of the long-lost province of [[Dacia]], which [[Aurelian]] had been forced to abandon in [[271]]. At the time of his death, he was planning a great expedition to put an end to raids on the eastern provinces from the [[Persian Empire]].