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	Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This line of Roman emperors was actually generally German rather than Roman, but maintained their Romanness as a matter of principle; it lasted until 1806 when Francis II dissolved the Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.
		Theodosius I acceded to the purple in the East in 379 and in the West in 394.
		He was the last Emperor to rule over a united empire; the distribution of the East to his son Arcadius and the West to his son Honorius after his death in 395 represented a permanent division.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roman_Emperor (3243 words)

	JOHN IV. (EAST ROMAN EMPEROR) - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN IV. (EAST ROMAN EMPEROR) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		JOHN I. (925-976), surnamed Tzimisces, East Roman emperor was born of a distinguished Cappadocian family.
		He reorganized the remnant of the East Roman empire, and by his administrative skill made it the strongest and richest principality in the Levant.
		1292-1383), surnamed Cantacuzene, East Roman emperor, was born at Constantinople.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JO/JOHN_IV_EAST_ROMAN_EMPEROR_.htm (1224 words)

	Roman - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Roman Kingdom — 753 BC to 509 BC — there were seven traditional Kings of Rome before the establishment of the Roman Republic.
		Roman road — as a military, commercial, and political expedient, became adept at constructing long straight roads and were essential for the growth of their empire.
		Roman villa — country houses, though suburban villas on the edge of cities were known), such as the late Republican villas that encroached on the Campus Martius then on the edge of Rome.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /roman.htm (1083 words)

	Frederick Barbarossa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Abroad, Frederick intervened in the Danish civil war between Svend III and Valdemar I of Denmark, and negotiations were begun with the East Roman emperor, Manuel I Comnenus.
		Frederick's campaign was stopped by the sudden outbreak of the plague which threatened to destroy the Imperial army and drove the emperor as a fugitive to Germany, where he remained for the ensuing six years.
		Friendly relations were entered into with the East Roman emperor Manuel, and attempts were made to come to a better understanding with Henry II of England and Louis VII of France.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frederick_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor (1778 words)

	VALENS - LoveToKnow Article on VALENS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		, East Roman emperor from 364 to 378, owed his elevation in the thirty-sixth year of his age to his brother Valentinian, who chose him to be his associate in the empire, of which a formal division into East and West was now once for all definitively arranged (see VALENTINIAN I.).
		The battle, which was fought on confined ground in a valley, was decided by a cavalry charge of the Alans and Sarmatians, which threw the Roman infantry into confusion and hemmed it in so closely that the men could scarcely draw their swords.
		The slaughter, which continued till the complete destruction of the Roman army, was one of the greatest recorded in antiquity.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /V/VA/VALENS.htm (774 words)

	Upheaval In The West
		The decline of Roman rule in the West was hastened as a series of incompetent emperors abandoned Rome and sought safety behind the marshes at the northern Italian city of Ravenna.
		The emperor in the East held on to southern Italy, as well as Ravenna and Venice, and the pope became the virtual ruler of Rome.
		The shock and dismay felt by contemporaries throughout the Roman world on learning of Alaric’s sack of the Eternal City in 410 were to echo down the centuries, leaving the impression that the fall of Rome was a major calamity, one of the greatest in history.
	www.emayzine.com /lectures/romeco~2.htm (2355 words)

	Germanic Tribes and the Conquest of Rome
		Here Theodoric found that the Roman artists had brought to perfection one of the most demanding and un- compromising of all artistic forms, the art of mosaic; and it was for this achievement that his Ravenna would be principally remembered.
		Roman agricultural practices were taken up by the Germans, who contributed their ability to open up the heavy clay soils that appeared once the forests had been cleared.
		The last emperor in the West was the boy ruler Romulus Augustulus, who was killed in 476 by the Germanic chieftain Odoacer.
	history-world.org /germanic_tribes.htm (2778 words)

	SparkNotes: Early Middle Ages (475-1000): Important Terms, People, and Events
		Although the Eastern emperor Zeno thought of Julius Nepos as Westerm emperor, Odovacar refused to recognize this man's authority, as did the Senate at Rome.
		Charles the Bald received the western regions from forty miles east of Paris to the southwestern Marches and stretching from the English Channel to the Mediterranean.
		Emperor Charles the Fat - · The last strong Frankish king in the East, was able to push Vikings off from Paris; he offered the Vikings a ransom called Danegeld, as well as unhampered plundering in Burgundy, his enemy at the time.
	www.sparknotes.com /history/european/middle1/terms.html (6639 words)

	Constantine the Great - OrthodoxWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Equal to the Apostles Emperor Saint Constantine the Great (February 27, 272-May 22, 337) was proclaimed Augustus by his troops on July 25, 306 and ruled an ever-growing portion of the Roman Empire to his death.
		Since the Roman Emperors ruled by "divine right" and stayed in power through the support of the legions, it was important for them to be seen to support a strong state religion.
		As a Roman emperor, Constantine is not completely unassociated with paganism, and there is some controversy over the vision which historical orthodoxy accepted as his conversion, demurring that it was pagan in content, not Christian.
	www2.orthodoxwiki.org /Constantine_the_Great (1396 words)

	Vindobona (Vienna, Wien)
		The story of Roman Vienna, or -to use its ancient name- Vindobona, starts somewhere in the Rhineland, where the Roman general Marcus Lollius suffered a defeat by the hands of the Germanic Sugambri in 17 or 16 BCE.
		In 92, the Romans suffered a disastrous defeat when one of their legions, XXI Rapax was destroyed by the Dacians.
		The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, one of the greatest warriors of Antiquity, defended the Danube frontier and was able to seize the initiative.
	www.livius.org /vi-vr/vindobona/vindobona.html (1612 words)

	JOHN I. (EAST ROMAN EMPEROR) - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN I. (EAST ROMAN EMPEROR) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		JOHN I. (EAST ROMAN EMPEROR) - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN I. John had kindled very keen animosity, not only among the upholders of the independence of the lay power, but also among the upholders of absolute religious poverty, the exalted Franciscans.
		Sigismund, king of the Romans, not only extorted, it is said, a sum of 50,000 forms from the pontiff in his extremity, but insisted upon his summoning the council at Constance (December 9).
		It was in vain that, on the death of Ladislaus, which took place unexpectedly (August 6, 1414), John was inspired with the idea of breaking his compact with Sigismund and returning to Rome, at the same time appealing to Louis of Anjou.
	www.87.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JO/JOHN_I_EAST_ROMAN_EMPEROR_.htm (2345 words)

	Heraclius
		He was the son and namesake of the powerful Armenian Exarch of Africa, who had been one of East Roman Emperor Maurice's key generals in the 590 war with Persia.
		Though the younger Heraclius' birthplace is unknown, he grew up in Roman Africa; according to one tradition, he engaged in gladiatorial combat with lions as a youth.
		Later on, he styled himself as Basileus, the Greek word for "Emperor", and that title was used by the eastern Roman emperors for the next 800 years.
	www.themiddleages.net /people/heraclius.html (1228 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Marcus Aurelius
		The emperor died on March 7, but not before clearly indicating to magistrates and senate alike his desire that Marcus succeed him by having the statue of Fortuna, which had been in his bedroom, transferred to Marcus.
		The two emperors hastened north, after a rapid mobilization of forces, which included the drafting of slaves, since the manpower potential of the empire had been so impaired by the consequences of the plague and the losses and troop commitments in the East.
		Marcus recommended to Commodus continuation of the war, but the new emperor was eager to return to Rome and the ease and luxury of the imperial court and entered into a peace agreement.
	www.roman-emperors.org /marcaur.htm (4243 words)

	Beast of Revelation -- Chapter 3: The Beast of Revelation Revealed
		It is perhaps significant that, around the time of its greatest extent, the Roman Empire adopted the red or purple dragon as one of its main military emblems--and it eventually became the ceremonial standard of the later East Roman emperors!
		As the Roman Empire in the West collapsed, the leaders of three groups of barbarian invaders--the Vandals, the Heruli and the Ostrogoths--sought to succeed the Western emperors.
		Their "unorthodoxy" was viewed by Roman Catholics as a threat to the religious unity of the West under the bishop of Rome.
	www.pars.net /~lkwhite/page/Beast/bst-ch3.html (2855 words)

	Timeline Holy Roman Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		1036-1056 Henry III ruled the Holy Roman Empire, which extended from Hamburg and Bremen in the north to the instep of Italy to the south, Burgundy in the west, and Hungary and Poland to the east.
		The Catholic heir to the Hapsburg dynasty, Charles V, was elected Holy Roman Emperor, combining the crowns of Spain, Burgundy (with the Netherlands), Austria and Germany.
		In exchange for a perpetual lease the Knights undertook to send the emperor a falcon (made famous in the mystery novel, The Maltese Falcon, and the movie of the same name) once every year as a token of their fealty.
	www.bonus.com /contour/timelines_history/http@@/timelines.ws/countries/HOLY_ROMAN_EMP.HTML (2895 words)

	Nero: Roman Emperor
		The reign of Claudius was brought to an end by poison--the notorious Locusta was employed by Agrippina for the purpose--and he was succeeded by Nero, to the exclusion of Britannicus.
		At the outset the young emperor was guided by Seneca and Burrus; his first speech--put into his mouth by Seneca, for he was no orator--was full of promise.
		He took cover for his passion for chariot-driving and singing by inducing men of noble birth to exhibit themselves in the arena; high-born ladies acted in disreputable plays; the emperor himself posed as a mime, and pretended to be a patron of poetry and philosophy.
	www.publicbookshelf.com /public_html/Outline_of_Great_Books_Volume_I/neroroman_cf.html (601 words)

	Roman - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Roman Republic — 509 BC to 44 BC — traditionally lasted as a representative government of Rome and its territories from 509 BC until the establishment of the Roman Empire, typically placed at 44 BC or 27 BC
		Roman Empire — 44 BC to AD 476 — conventionally used to describe the Roman state in the centuries following its reorganization under the leadership of Caesar Augustus
		This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Roman (953 words)

	THE ROMAN DRILL
		This was well past they heyday of the Roman army and 450 years after the era we portray (AD 130-140), but as far as primary references go, it’s all we’ve got for actual commands.
		This is a rank (or series of ranks) facing the enemy, shield to front, pilum held in a light grip ready to cock and discharge.
		The Romans did not employ shield walls in their standard battle formation, but advanced in an open formation with a gap of one-two feet between shields.
	www.legionsix.org /roman_drill.htm (1095 words)

	Justinian I, Roman Emperor of the East (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 518, Justinian became administrator (basically emperor) for his uncle, Emperor Justin I, who shortly after nammed him as his successor.
		In 532, he signed an "eternal peace" with Persia to the east, and from 533-534 the Vandal kingdom of northern Africa was re-incorperated into the Empire.
		Much land was also reconquered in southern Spain from the Visigoths and in southern Italy from the Ostrogoths.
	www.ghg.net /shetler/oldimp/104.html (105 words)

	Babakale-Lekton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is being said that Emperor of Byzantion thought to make Alexandria Troas the capital city of East Roman Emperor instead of Constantinople.
		Roman sentiment attracted them to Troas, the alleged seat from whence Aeneas, the fabled progenitor of Rome's founder, originally migrated.
		There are many quarries of Roman Emperor in the area of Troas.The columns of meters of leght and tones of weight were made here and sent to many big cities of Roman Emperor between 300 BC and 400 AD.
	www.babakale.com /english/troas (564 words)

	The Number 457 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the year 457 AD Marcian, East Roman emperor died.
		In the year 457 AD Leo I becomes East Roman emperor.
		In the year 457 AD Majorian is declared emperor by Ricimer.
	www.virtuescience.com /457.html (116 words)

	Italian Peninsula, 1-500 A.D. \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Under the Roman emperors, the Italian peninsula, particularly Rome and its surrounding areas, experiences great achievements in literature, architecture, and the arts.
		An eventual decline in imperial power and the threat of invasions across the Alps to the north of the peninsula, however, lead to economic and political collapse.
		The battle is seen as a watershed in the decline of the Roman army and its ability to stem the
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/ht/05/eust/ht05eust.htm (833 words)

	Leo I on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Chosen by the senate to succeed Marcian, he sought to counteract the preponderance of Germans in the Roman army by enlisting Isaurians.
		A naval expedition (468) against the Vandals of Africa failed through the incompetence or treachery of the commander, Basiliscus, who delayed his attack until Gaiseric was able to attack him with fire ships.
		Leo I was succeeded by his grandson, Leo II, a child of six, who died in the year of his accession; Leo I's son-in-law, Zeno, then became emperor.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/L/Leo1.asp (778 words)

	Historical Summary A.D.
		Symbols of Polytheism and Monotheism respectively, Roman and Jewish beliefs come to blows during the first century [70 A.D.] and the Jewish Temple is destroyed.
		Commentary: "During the fourth century, Roman Emperor Constantine I was honored for establishing Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire.
		During that period [5th Century], the Fall of the Roman Empire was followed not long after [6th Century], by the Dawn of the Dark Ages.
	mirrorh.com /summh.html (2614 words)

	Flavius
		384 Flavius Honorius, emperor East Roman Republic, 395-423
		378 Flavius Valens, emperor of Byzantium (364-78), dies in battle at 50
		331 Flavius Claudius Julianus, [Julian the Apostate], emperor
	www.brainyhistory.com /topics/f/flavius.html (197 words)

	Find in a Library: Justinian the Great; Roman Emperor of the East. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Find in a Library: Justinian the Great; Roman Emperor of the East.
		Justinian the Great; Roman Emperor of the East.
		Subjects: Justinian -- I, -- Emperor of the East, -- 483?-565.
	www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/7306fc5ffc848eb2.html (60 words)

	Notes for ~Aegidius "Master General" of Roman Gaul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)*
		The West Roman Emperor Majorian (a legitimate emperor approved by the East Roman Emperor
		However, Aegidius was not the only one to secede from the West Roman Empire.
		ain to be part of the West Roman Empire), pledging nominal allegiance to the East Roman Emper
	mariah.stonemarche.org /famfiles/nti02919.htm (344 words)

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