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  List of Roman usurpers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following is an attempted list of usurpers in the Roman Empire.
This is a listing of Roman emperors that so became due to their own initiative with neither family ties to the previous nor senatorial appointement.
List of to be emperors eventually defeated by the ruling sovereign, listed by reign.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Roman_usurpers   (454 words)

  
 Later Roman Empire - LoveToKnow Watches
The unpopular rule of this cruel usurper was terminated in 650 by the intervention of the governor of Africa, whose son Heraclius sailed to Constantinople and, welcomed by an influential party, met with little resistance.
Caesar] of Bulgaria and autocrator of the Romans." The aggression against the Empire which marked his ambitious reign ceased under his successor Peter, who married a daughter of Romanus I., and the Bulgarian Patriarchate founded by Simeon was recognized at Byzantium.
It was a new principle to impose the burden of naval defence on the coast and island districts.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Later_Roman_Empire   (17063 words)

  
 Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Discussion of Roman Emperors involves a high degree of historian's editorial discretion, for the Romans themselves did not share the modern understanding of the monarchical concepts of "empire" and "emperor".
The concept of the Roman Empire was renewed in the West with the coronation of the king of the Franks, Charlemagne, as Roman emperor by the Pope on Christmas Day, 800.
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roman_Emperors   (3511 words)

  
 Roman Emperors - DIR Phillip the Arabian
Despite growing instability in the provinces, Romans in the year 248 were fascinated by the celebrations of the 1,000th anniversary of their city's foundation.
Hartmann, in his study on the usurpers of the third century, tries to reconstruct the circumstances of the rebellion and comes to the following conclusions[[26]]: Silbannacus, whose name indicates Celtic origin, revolted against Philip near the Rhine frontier in Germania Superior, which was threatened by the German tribes.
Even the dating of the coin and of the usurper under Philip are far from certain, as well as is the hypothesis that Silbannacus was a commander of auxiliary troops.
www.roman-emperors.org /philarab.htm   (5138 words)

  
 Roman Power and Christian Conflict 285-395 by Sanderson Beck
In "The Caesars" Julian satirized the Roman Emperors from Julius Caesar to Constantius.
The Roman army marched west, and in 364 on the way through Bithynia and Galatia Jovian was found dead in his bed.
The troops of the usurpers ran away in panic, and Eugenius was killed in 394 as Arbogast fled and committed suicide.
www.san.beck.org /AB10-RomanPower285-395.html   (22723 words)

  
 Roman Emperor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
"'''Roman Emperor'''" is the title historians use to refer to rulers of the Roman Empire, after the epoch conventionally named the Roman Republic.
:''Main article: Roman Emperor (Principate) 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.
:''Main article: Roman Emperor (Dominate) The accession to the purple on November 20, 284, of Diocletian, the lower-class, Greek-speaking Dalmatian commander of Carus's and Numerian's household cavalry (''protectores domestici''), marked a major departure from traditional Roman constitutional theory regarding the Emperor, who was nominally first among equals; Diocletian introduced Oriental despotism into the Imperial dignity.
roman-emperor.area51.ipupdater.com   (2713 words)

  
 Roman Emperors - DIR Aurelian
As a compensation for the settlers that had left the abandoned province and to conceal the shame of abandoning Roman territory, he created a new province Dacia on the safer southern bank of the Danube on the territory of the provinces of Moesia and Thracia [[14]].
The Palmyrene war (A.D. Aurelian's next project was the reintegration of the Eastern provinces into the Roman Empire [[15]]: Zenobia of Palmyra and her son Vaballathus had established the Palmyrene Empire extending from Egypt to Asia Minor.
According to Zosimus (1,59; mentioned also by Zonaras 12,27), Zenobia died of a disease or starved herself to death while Aurelianus marched from the East to Rome; if that is true, then of course she cannot have been part of the triumph in Rome.
www.roman-emperors.org /aurelian.htm   (3834 words)

  
 Ancient Roman and Greek Coins, page 2
Roman legends are in Latin which uses our usual A, B, C,...
In Greek and Roman times, silver coins the size of a dime (that are common today) were worth a full day's pay for a laborer (and most workers were laborers).
Roman coins are government documents that often combine history with portraits.
esty.ancients.info /numis/intro2.html   (2012 words)

  
 Roman Emperors - DIR Trajan Decius
The noted Roman historian, Sir Ronald Syme, has pointed out that Decius is the "palmary specimen of the reluctant usurper," a standard figure throughout the literature of the late Roman Empire.
Accordingly, during the next engagement, after the Romans, had defeated two Gothic detachments and the Romans were in a swampy area near Abrittus (which is between the Black Sea and the Danube River), Gallus, acting according to a pre-arranged plan, gave a signal to the Goths who surrounded and annihilated the Roman force.
In addition, it is important to recognize that the Roman state ultimately rested upon religious foundations and the tranquility and prosperity of the Empire depended upon a balance of human and divine forces.
www.roman-emperors.org /decius.htm   (8647 words)

  
 Lou Speaks Page 6   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Roman Rota or ecclesiastical tribunal, acting on a report by someone claiming to be an injured party, alleges that Mgr Luigi Marinelli wrote Via Col Vento in Vaticano (Gone with the Wind in the Vatican), and has ordered him to appear for questioning with a lawyer.
The Roman Catholic Church, that great mammoth system of deception conceived in the dark mind of the archenemy of Christ, Lucifer, is revealed symbolically in the book of Revelation, chapter 13, as the "beast" having seven heads and ten horns.
Because of Roman Catholicism's BOAST that she is above the Bible and thus qualified to modify the divine precepts, she has in answer to Daniel's prophecy, indeed tampered with the Law of God.
www.remnantofgod.org /page6.htm   (9582 words)

  
 ROME IN AFRICA
This march of Rome in Africa was described by her historians with the onesidedness characteristic of the Roman scribe in all epochs.
It was in the proconsulate of Lucius Paulinus that the Romans overcame the whole of Mauritania, and lifted the eagles of Rome against the farther as well as the hither flanks of Atlas.
This was the Calabathmus Magnus of the Romans, and, as the skirt of Egypt was the recognised ancient limits of Asia and Africa.
www.sundown.pair.com /Sharp/WSVol_4/rome.htm   (7075 words)

  
 Probus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The list of names of hostile tribes seems endless, but each was a dangerous threat to the empire.
The roads were free of robbers and a traveler could journey in peace from one end of the empire to another with some reasonable assurance that his throat would not be slit and his wealth taken.
Venting their displeasure at having to do this kind of work, they rebelled and murdered their emperor With the death of Probus, the Roman Empire lost one of the best emperors it was to have during the turbulent Third Century, and one who was a good example for rulers everywhere.
users2.ev1.net /~legionary/mainevent/coins/Probus.html   (723 words)

  
 Terence Kealey on the fall of the Roman Empire | Samizdata.net
The key problem is the fact that the Roman economy was based on a very advanced form of slavery and mechanisation and machinary and slavery don't go together.
The situation in the East (the old Eastern Roman empire) was different and scientific knowledge (lost in the West) was preserved and enhanced.
Roman empire demise was a benefit to development, because the notion of central control was finally diminished.
www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/003933.html   (5731 words)

  
 Byzantine Emperor List - Ancient Roman Empire Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
I would knock him out of the list in November 1204, when, having traipsed around the ruins of the Empire with his serially polygamous daughter Evdokia, he was captured at Corinth by Bonifacio of Monferrato and sent off to captivity in Monferrato.
I mean such "simple" lists you can find everywhere, but noone did the lists with all usurpers and all co-augusti, except me and roman-emperors.org.
My list was in Russian (http://www.ancientrome.ru/imp/index.htm) and not available for many people, so I translated it and posted on RAT, when one of its members presented his timeline tables.
www.unrv.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=3353&st=0   (2156 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Roman Emperor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Tiberius's second wife was Julia Caesaris, Marcus Agrippa's widow (his first wife had been Vipsania, Agrippa's daughter by his first marriage); Caesar Augustus adopted Tiberius on June 26, 4, whereupon Tiberius himself adopted his brother Drusus's son by Marcus Antonius's daughter, Germanicus Julius Caesar.
The year 69 is often called the "Year of the Four Emperors" because it saw four usurpers successively claim the purple.
Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Roman_Emperor   (2693 words)

  
 The New Yorker: Fact   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Later, his place was taken by the Holy Roman Emperor in Vienna, and his in turn by the new rulers of the West.
As late as the seventeenth century, Turkish pashas still ruled in Budapest and Belgrade, Turkish armies were besieging Vienna, and Barbary corsairs were raiding lands as distant as the British Isles and, on one occasion, in 1627, even Iceland.
The notion of tyrannicide—the justified removal of a tyrant—was not an Islamic innovation; it was familiar in antiquity, among Jews, Greeks, and Romans alike, and those who performed it were often acclaimed as heroes.
www.newyorker.com /fact/content/011119fa_FACT2   (8153 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Ancient Coin Collecting III: The Roman World-Politics and Propaganda: Books: Wayne G. Sayles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
This is a good introduction to the fascinating world of ancient Roman coins, aimed at the general reader and beginning collector.
Contains a useful photo gallery of Roman emperors and major usurpers as well as tips on how to attribute coins, read inscriptions and figure out the various images that may appear on reverses.
Roman History from the Sources: A list by D.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0873415337?v=glance   (1218 words)

  
 Prophecy In The News Articles List
From Roman times, through the Dark Ages of the Roman Church and the Holy Roman Empire, the land of Israel continued to be known as Palestine.
As previously mentioned, Romans were the ones who labeled the Promised Land with the name of Israel’s enemies.
Their mantle was passed on to the Holy Roman Empire, which believed that it had inherited the claims made to Israel.
www.prophecyinthenews.com /articledetail.asp?Article_ID=45   (5876 words)

  
 Roman Strategy against Barbarians
Barbarization is doubtful in both extent and impact, effectiveness sof the army did not decline 350 — 425 so collapse army after this period or not in the army at all.
Loss of Adrianople — allowed settlement of Goths in Balkans, not new or worrying but when used against usurpers allowed creation if an identity never possessed by Barbarian groups — Stilicho’s failure to beat the Goths — not until 450 Goths a real pain in Gaul.
Only in decades after 450 was collapse inevitable — connect this with loss of Africs reservoir of manpower and money — not enough to bring empire down, and Armies still relatively strong.
www.revision-notes.co.uk /revision/232.html   (378 words)

  
 VCoins - The Online Coin Show for Ancient Coins, US Coins, and World Coins
Kevin purchased his first ancient coin in 1978 (an Alexadrian bronze of Probus which he still has) and has been quietly involved in the hobby ever since.
His current interests include ancient counterfeits, Paduan imitations and the coins of the usurpers.
In 1999 he founded the Moneta-L email list which has become the most successful discussion group on ancient coins on the Internet.
www.vcoins.com /ancient/barryanddarling/store/info.asp?page=AboutUs   (191 words)

  
 Rome: General Resources
The Roman roads in the Mediterranean region and Europe.
An introduction to Roman ceramics by the University of Louvain, Belgium.
"The Roman institution of marriage has been lauded as being the first purely humanistic law of marriage, one that is based on the idea of marriage being a free and freely dissolvable union of two equal partners for life.
intranet.dalton.org /groups/rome/RGen.html   (6836 words)

  
 Roman Emperor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
"'''Roman Emperor'''" is the title historians use to refer to the ruler of the Roman Empire.
The Nervan-Antonine dynasty produced the famous "Five Good Emperors", and the first non-Italian Roman Emperors, the Spaniards Trajanus and Hadrianus.
Julianus the Apostate famously attempted to restore paganism in the Empire, and became the second Emperor (after Decius) to die in battle with a foreign enemy (the Persians).
roman-emperor.kiwiki.homeip.net   (5807 words)

  
 *** The House of Ptolemy: Index Page ***
An aid in the study of the Ptolemaic (Macedonian-based Greek), Roman Imperial (Greco-Roman), and Byzantine rulers of Egypt based in Alexandria, this portal site is intended for all classicists and students of Hellenistic history.
Caesar, Cleopatra, and Marcus Antonius: The Transition to a Greco-Roman (Roman Provincial) Egypt
Roman Rule over Egypt: The Chora -- Outside of Alexandria or the Greek Cities
www.houseofptolemy.org   (873 words)

  
 ROMAN COIN PENDANTS
HOW TO This perfectly preserved and struck bronze Roman coin of the Roman emperor Probus is set in a heavy and bold key design 14K yellow gold high polish pendant setting.
Venting their displeasure at having to do this kind of work, the soldiers he was visiting in Sirmium rebelled and murdered Probus right in the fields.
With the death of Probus, the Roman Empire lost one of the best emperors it was to have during the turbulent Third Century, and one who was a good example for rulers everywhere.
www.johnbmcnamara.com /cpr021.htm   (718 words)

  
 The False Teachings of Two Usurpers
The tail is seen in Eden being called in Revelation 12: 9; "that old serpent" and its body is seen from the fall in Eden to the kingdom of Babylon, where prophecy begins to present four earthly kingdoms that among them have seven heads and ten horns.
At the end of the Roman empire, it was divided into ten parts that form the dragon's ten horns.
Daniel 8: 23 - 25 also portrays the rise of the Roman Empire that shall "stand up against the Prince of princes" as John portrays the dragon standing before the woman ready to devour her child.
www.666beast.net /corrupted.htm   (10808 words)

  
 The Fate Of Assyrian Villages - Assyrian Democratic Movement-Patriotic Stream
and Diaspora waiting for the Zibari Kurds usurpers to vacate the village in order for its population to be able to return back and re-settle.
Armash: According to the 1957 census its population was 204, and they are Assyrians of the Tkhoma tribe who went into Roman Catholicism.
In 1961 the village was subjected several times to destruction, plundering and burning until 1987 when it was demolished by the Iraqi authorities within a plan to settle them in a coerced community in Atrosh.
www.zaawa.org /villages.htm   (14663 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Classics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Classics (or Classical Studies), particularly within the Western University tradition, when used as a singular noun, means the study of the language, literature, history, art, and other aspects of Greek and Roman culture during the time frame known as classical antiquity.
"Classicus occurs first in Aulus Gellius, a Roman author of the second century who in his miscellany Noctes Atticae (19, 8, 15) refers to classicus scriptor, non proletarius.
He was ranking writers according to the classification of the Roman taxation classes.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Classical_Greece   (801 words)

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