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| | Rome and Romania, Roman Emperors, Byzantine Emperors, etc. |
 | | Caelius Calvinus Balbinus & M. Clodius Pupienus Maximus |
 | | The chaos that had threatened in some earlier successions (in 69 and 193) now arrived in 238, when we can say that there were five Emperors in one year. |
 | | Decius and Herennius were killed in battle by the Goths in 251 -- the only Roman Emperors to die in battle (against external enemies) besides Julian (against the Persians, 363), Valens (against the Goths again, 378), Nicephorus I (against the Bulgars, 811), and Constantine XI (with the fall of Constantinople to the Turks, 1453). |
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