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	Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus. Who is Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus? What is Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus? Where is ...
		Maximinus I, also known as Maximinus Thrax and Caius Julius Verus Maximinus, was Roman emperor in AD He was conspicuous as the first barbarian who wore the imperial purple and the first never to set foot in Rome.
		Maximinus was in command of the recruits from Pannonia, who were angered by Alexander's payments to the Alemanni and his avoidance of war.
		Maximinus marched on Rome, but at Aquileia Maximinus's troops, suffering from famine and disease, from a prolonged siege of the city became disaffected.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Gaius_Julius_Verus_Maximinus (504 words)

	maximinus thrax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Maximinus was born in Thrace to a Gothicic father and an Alanicic mother.
		Securing the German frontier, at least for a while, Maximinus then set up a winter encampment at Sirmium in Pannonia (now in northwest Serbia, near the Bosnian and Croatian borders), and from that supply base fought the Dacians and the Sarmatians during the winter of 235-236.
		Maximinus marched on Rome, but at Aquileia Maximinus's troops, suffering from famine and disease, bogged down in an unexpected siege of the city, which had closed its gates when they approached, became disaffected.
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	Maximinus
		Traditionally the birth of Maximinus is stated as having been either in AD 172 or 173, as was believed by the ancient historians.
		Maximinus was truly a mountain of a man. Surely the largest man ever to hold imperial office, the Historia Augusta states him at 8 ft 6 in tall (2.6 metres), and so strong that he could pull an ox cart on his own.
		Maximinus knew that the war against the Alemanni was of paramount importance.
	www.roman-empire.net /decline/maximinus.html (1128 words)

	Maximinus Thrax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was the first of the so-called soldier-emperors of the 3rd century, but certainly not the last; his rule is often considered to mark the beginning of the Crisis of the Third Century.
		Maximinus was born in Thrace or Moesia to a Gothic father and an Alanic mother.
		Securing the German frontier, at least for a while, Maximinus then set up a winter encampment at Sirmium in Pannonia (now in northwest Serbia, near the Bosnian and Croatian borders), and from that supply base fought the Dacians and the Sarmatians during the winter of 235–236.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maximinus_Thrax (700 words)

	Encyclopedia: Julius
		Gaius Julius Callistus was a Greek freedman of the Emperor Caligula.
		Julius I, pope from 337 to 352, was a native of Rome and was chosen as successor of Marcus after the Roman see had been vacant four months.
		Julius III, né Gian Maria del Monte or Giovan Maria Giocci (September 10, 1487 - March 23, 1555) pope from February 7, 1550 to 1555, the last of the High Renaissance popes, was born at Rome, the son of a famous jurist.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Julius (1087 words)

	Maximinus Thrax - Wikipedia
		Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus, kalt Maximinus Thrax (Trakeren Maximinus (født 172 eller 173, død april 238) var romersk keiser fra februar eller mars 235 til sin død.
		Maximinus ble født Thrakia, i den delen som lå innenfor den romerske provinsen Moesia.
		Maximinus begynte å bevege seg mot Roma med sine styrker, men da de ble rammet av matmangel og sykdom måtte de stoppe ved Aquileia.
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		Maximinus, Gaius Julius Verus (173-238), Roman emperor (235-238), noted for his cruelty and rapacity.
		Caesar, Gaius Julius (100-44 bc), Roman general and statesman, who laid the foundations of the Roman imperial system.
		Maximinus, Gaius Galerius Valerius (died 313), Roman emperor (308-313), a nephew of Emperor Galerius.
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	GAIUS JULIUS VERUS MAXIMINUS - LoveToKnow Article on GAIUS JULIUS VERUS MAXIMINUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		After the murder of Alexander in Gaul, hastened, it is said, by his instigation, Maximinus was proclaimed emperor by the soldiers on the 19th of March 235.
		The three years of his reign, which were spent wholly in the camp, were marked by great cruelty and oppression; the wIdespread discontent thus produced culminated in a revolt in Africa and the assumption of the purple by Gordian (q.v.).
		Maximinus, who was in Pannonia at the time, marched against Rome, and passing over the Julian Alps descended on Aquileia; while detained before that city he and his son were murdered in their tent by a body of praetorians.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MAXIMINUS_GAIUS_JULIUS_VERUS.htm (248 words)

	2. Foreign Invasion and Internal Disarray. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Gaius Julius Verus MAXIMINUS “Thrax,” a Thracian peasant noted for his great size and strength, who had risen from the ranks under Septimius, was proclaimed emperor by the Rhine legions after the murder of Alexander.
		Maximinus beat back the threats of Sarmatians, Dacians, and Goths but was opposed by the senate.
		Marcus Julius PHILIPPUS “the Arab” bought peace with the Persians, won victories in Germany and Dacia, and, at Rome, celebrated the ludi saeculares for Rome's thousandth birthday (248).
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	R1541
		Maximinus as emperor, crossed the Rhine bridge in the summer of 235, and spent the rest of the year fighting the Germans in the Taunus and Wurttemberg area.
		Maximinus, having reached Italy, found the gates of the city of Aquileia closed to him.
		The assassins took the heads of Maximinus and his son to Ravenna, where Pupienus was mustering troops, and then to Rome.
	www.forumancientcoins.com /historia/coins/r4/r1541.htm (469 words)

	Maximinus Thrax Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Maximinus was acclaimed emperor by the army near Mainz in March 235.
		Maximinus eventually crossed the Rhine bridge in the summer of 235 CE, and spent the rest of the year fighting the Germans in the Taunus and Wurttemberg area.
		Maximinus crossed the Alps and was surprised and angry to find that the city of Aquileia, on the Adriatic coast of northern Italy, closed its gates against him, and refused all offers of an amnesty.
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	Maximinus I Thrax - Wikipedia
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		Maximinus Thrax (ook Maximinus I en soms Maximinus de Thraciër genoemd) (?-238) was keizer van Rome van 235 tot lente 238) zonder ooit in Rome geweest te zijn.
		Zijn volledige naam was Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus, met de bijnaam 'Thrax' voor 'de Thraciër'.
	nl.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maximinus_I_Thrax (407 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Maximinus Thrax
		The first of the "soldier-emperors," Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus spent all three years of his reign on campaign.
		Maximinus was born around the year 173 in a village in Thrace (roughly modern Bulgaria and the European portion of Turkey).
		His names recall those of Gaius Julius Maximinus, who was governor of the nearby province of Dacia (modern Romania) in 208 and under whom the future emperor may have served as a soldier and been granted Roman citizenship.
	www.roman-emperors.org /maxthrax.htm (915 words)

	Roman Emperor (Crisis of the Third Century) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The accession to the purple of Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus "Thrax" ("the Thracian") marks the rise of the first "Barracks Emperor" par excellence.
		Whereas the previous military Emperors (Vespasian, Septimius Severus) had come from noble or middle-class plebeian families, Maximinus was born a commoner of a low-class family in a disreputable part of the Empire, and had begun his career as an enlisted soldier (miles).
		He installed his son Marcus Julius Philippus as co-Emperor, but both were killed in 249 by partisans of Philippus's rebellious governor of Moesia and Pannonia, the consular Decius.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roman_Emperor_(Crisis_of_the_Third_Century) (913 words)

	Roman Emperor - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The nature of the Imperial office and the Principate was established under Julius Caesar's heir and posthumously adopted son, Caesar Augustus, and his own heirs, the descendants of his wife Livia from her first marriage to a scion of the distinguished Claudian clan.
		This Julio-Claudian dynasty came to an end when the emperor Nero—a great-great-grandson of Augustus through his daughter and of Livia through her son—was deposed in AD Nero was followed by a succession of usurpers throughout 69, commonly called the "Year of the Four Emperors".
		Licinius defeated Maximinus Daia in April 313 at Tarsus, and the latter committed suicide shortly thereafter, leaving Licinius and Constantinus the only Emperors; they governed the Empire along the usual lines of East and West, respectively, discarded the defunct Tetrarchical system, warred against one another in 316 – 317, and again in 324 – 325.
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	GALERIUS VALERIUS MAXIMINUS - LoveToKnow Article on GALERIUS VALERIUS MAXIMINUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		He rose to high distinction after he had joined the army, and in 305 he was raised by his uncle, Galerius, to the rank of Caesar,,with the government of Syria and Egypt.
		He came to an open rupture with Licinius in 313, sustained a crushing defeat in the neighborhood of Heraclea Pontica on the 3oth of April, and fled, first to Nicomedia and afterwards to Tarsus, where he died in August following.
		Maximinus has a bad name in Christian annals, as having renewed persecution after the publication of the toleration edict of Galerius, but it is probable that he has been judged too harshly.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MAXIMINUS_GALERIUS_VALERIUS.htm (208 words)

	Gens Julia - Wikipedia
		Gaius Julius Caesar was een lid van deze familie, evenals Caligula en Augustus.
		Marcus Julius Verus Philippus (± 204 - ± 249)
		Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus (± 173 - ± 238)
	nl.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gens_Iulia (249 words)

	LUCIUS VERUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Verus was stricken by disease and became ill at Capua.
		Verus had brought this man out of Syria as if he were a Parthian trophy, and another man whom he named Apolaustus.
		Verus could not endure this, and Libo died suddenly from an illness, the symptoms of which were suspiciously like those of poison.
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	ROMANORVM - Biographies
		In 235 AD they decided they would prefer someone of his calibre in place of their 'namby pamby' Emperor, Severus Alexander, who appeared to be under the thumb of his mother.
		Maximinus reigned briefly, and never managed to visit Rome, either out of deliberate policy or being unable to escape the pressure of the northern frontiers.
		He despised the Senatorial classses and made life so difficult for them that they first supported the old rebel Gordian I in Africa and, when he was killed, appointed two of their own, Pupienus and Balbinus, to rule jointly in opposition to Maxminus.
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	~ Gaius Traianus Marcius ~ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Gaius familia has lived in the provincia of Hispania Ulterior (Baetica S.P.Q.R.) since 547AUC when Commanding General Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Maior was the founder of a new Romanus municipality of Italica, settled the veterans of this war and to secure the Hispania frontier for Roma.
		Gaius at TheRegia is presently the guide in the Military Affairs section of TheRegia, and is working on a webpage for his birth city Italica and a webpage for one of the legio’s.
		Gaius is a military type and serves the Emperor and Roma with loyalty and honor.
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	List of ancient Romans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Gaius Licinius Macer Calvus - orator and poet
		Julius Verus Philippus (Philip the Arab) - emperor
		Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder) - scholar
	hallencyclopedia.com /List_of_ancient_Romans (1107 words)

	Roman Emperor article - Roman Emperor Roman Empire primus inter pares figureheads empire emperor Roman - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		At some points in the Empire's history, the Emperor was only nominal quasi-head of state; powerful praetorian prefects and masters of the soldiers (and even at one point Imperial mothers and grandmothers) occasionally acted as what might be called "shadow emperors" (also called "emperors who weren't").
		Whereas the previous military Emperors (Vespasianus, Septimius Severus) had come from noble or middle-class plebeian families, Maximinus was born a commoner of a low-class family in a disreputable part of the Empire, and had begun his career as an enlisted soldier (miles).
		Galerius: son-in-law and adopted son of Diocletianus, uncle of Maximinus Daia, father-in-law of Maxentius
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		AR denarius, Maximinus I "Thrax", Rome, RIC 7A
		Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus succeeded Severus Alexander in 235.
		By 238, the Senate had found allies in abused landowners in the North African colonies, and Maximinus was killed by his Praetorians after he insisted on persisting with fighting once his troops had been weakened and demoralized by the scorched-earth tactics used by the legions favoring Pupienus and Balbinus.
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	Julius Verus Maximinus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A huge brute of Gothic and Alan origin, Maximinus was a fitting general-emperor to mark the beginning of the years of civil war.
		The first Italian city on Maximinus' route to Rome was Aquileia, which closed its gates to the advanced guard of Maximinus' army.
		Maximinus came to be described as a ruthless, semi-barbarian tyrant, and by late antiquity he was regularly referred to with the ethnic epithet Thrax, "the Thracian."
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	Julius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Julius Caesar Nero, son of Germanicus and Agrippina
		Julia Caesaris, several women related to Julius and Augustus Caesar
		The faction House of Julii from the computer game Rome: Total War uses Julius as the family name (loosely based off of the patrician family in ancient Rome).
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	MAXIMILIAN (OF MEXICO) - LoveToKnow Article on MAXIMILIAN (OF MEXICO) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Having established his daughter Margaret as regent for Charles in the Netherlands, Maximilian met the diet at Constance in 1507, when the imperial chamber (Reichskammergericht) was revised and took a more permanent form, and help was granted for an expedition to Italy.
		He soon took the field, but after his failure to capture Padua the league broke up; and his sole ally, the French king, joined him in calling a general council at Pisa to discuss the question of Church reform.
		A breach with pope Julius followed, and at this time Maximilian appears to have entertained, perhaps quite seriously, the idea of seating himself in the chair of St Peter.
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