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Rome and Romania, Roman Emperors, Byzantine Emperors, etc. |
 | | 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). |
| | A Roman pocket under local commanders remained in the north of Gaul until the Frankish King Clovis subjugated it in 486. |
| | This was the end of Roman Gaul, 541 years after Caesar had completed its conquest in 56 BC -- or perhaps 531 years since the defeat, capture, and death of the rebel Vercingetorix in 46 BC. |
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