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	Maximinus Thrax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maximinus was born in Thrace or Moesia to a Gothic father and an Alanic mother.
		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, bogged down in an unexpected siege of the city, which had closed its gates when they approached, became disaffected.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maximinus_Thrax (701 words)

	Maximinus I, Roman Imperial Coins of, at WildWinds.com
		Maximinus I Æ 33mm of Anemurium in Cilicia.
		Maximinus I Æ 39mm of Cremna in Pisidia.
		Maximinus Thrax Æ 28mm of Ninica-Claudiopolis in Cilicia.
	www.wildwinds.com /coins/ric/maximinus_I/i.html (1825 words)

	Maximinus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 308, after the elevation of Licinius, he insisted on receiving the title of Augustus; on the death of Galerius, in 311, he succeeded to the supreme command of the provinces of Asia.
		He came to an open rupture with Licinius in 313, sustained a crushing defeat at the battle of Tzirallum, in the neighbourhood of Heraclea Pontica, on the April 30, and fled, first to Nicomedia and afterwards to Tarsus, where he died the following August.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maximinus (294 words)

	Maximinus II Daia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Maximinus II Daia was born on 20 November AD 270 in the Danubian region as the son of a sister of Galerius.
		Maximinus II Daia is described by ancient historians as a vicious, boorish, uneducated tyrant.
		Maximinus II had strengthened his position by the occupation of Asia Minor but hoped most of all to find an ally in Maxentius who controlled Italy and was also a traditional pagan.
	www.roman-empire.net /decline/maximinus-II.html (1323 words)

	Maximinus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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)

	MaximinusOV
		Maximinus Daia was promoted to the rank of Caesar by Galerius, with responsibility for the dioceses Orientis, which included the important provinces of Syria and Egypt.
		Maximinus Daia and Constantine were denoted filii Augustorum (sons of the emperor) they where both very upset by this decision because the rules of the tetrarchy clearly would have demanded one of the Caesar's to be promoted to the post of Augustus and not Licinius who hadn't even been appointed Caesar.
		Maximinus Daia's troops who had been quickly driven across a wintery and snow bound Asia Minor were on the brink of exhaustion and despite their highly superior numbers they were defeated by Licinius and fatigue.
	www.xs4all.nl /~sp88k/Coin/Traveler/Overviews/MaximinusOV.htm (1023 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Maximinus Thrax
		Maximinus was born around the year 173 in a village in Thrace (roughly modern Bulgaria and the European portion of Turkey).
		Maximinus arrived to find his minimally supplied troops bogged down in a siege, while Pupienus was already in Ravenna raising troops and preventing a swift march into central Italy.
		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."
	www.roman-emperors.org /maxthrax.htm (915 words)

	GAIUS JULIUS VERUS MAXIMINUS - LoveToKnow Article on GAIUS JULIUS VERUS MAXIMINUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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)

	Life of St. Maximinus of Micy
		Maximinus was remembered as the first abbot of the monastery of Micy, located on the south bank of the Loire river near the ancient civitas of Orléans.
		The man of God Maximinus wished to make the pastures accessible to people and animals once more through the grace of God and so he killed the immense dragon in the subterranean lair where it had hidden itself.
		Maximinus was buried in the place he had chosen, that is, where he had once killed the dragon.
	urban.hunter.cuny.edu /~thead/berthold.htm (1914 words)

	Roman timeline from 235AD to 268AD
		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 to the advanced guard of his army, became disaffected.
		In the final year of Maximinus Thrax's reign, when Gordian was nearly 80, he served as proconsul of Africa, one of the most prestigious appointments for a senator and former consul, though the appointment fell to him by lot.
		In the biography of Maximinus Thrax and his son in the Historia Augusta, Gordian II is said to have been publicly declared emperor along with his father in Thysdrus before the pair departed for Carthage.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /temetfutue/timeline/tl_Imperial-b.htm (17307 words)

	The Principate
		Maximinus Thrax and the Gordiani (I and II): Under Severus Alexander (emperor 222-235), Maximinus held high command in the Army of the Rhine, and, when Severus was murdered, he was proclaimed emperor by the Rhine army.
		Maximinus Thrax quickly suppressed this African revolt; but he himself was soon deposed by the Senate at Rome.
		Maximinus and the army crossed the Alps and besieged Aquileia, in northeast Italy.
	home.tiscali.be /mauk.haemers/collegium_historicum/principate6.htm (2401 words)

	Maximinus Thrax - Wikipedia
		Gaius Iulius Verus Maximinus Thrax oder Maximinus I. oder 173 in Thrakien, † April 238 in Aquileia) war römischer Kaiser von 235 bis 238.
		Maximinus zog gegen Italien und wurde bei der Belagerung von Aquileia auf dem Marsch nach Rom im April des Jahres 238 von seinen Truppen ermordet.
		Maximinus I. römischer Kaiser von 235 bis 238
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maximinus_Thrax (335 words)

	Maximinus Thrax - FreeEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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 as one of the emperors whose names are connected with the ten persecutions recorded by ecclesiastical historians.
		When that emperor lost the support of his troops, Maximinus seized his opportunity and organized a conspiracy which ended in the murder of Alexander and his mother at Mainz in 235.
		The hostility of Maximinus to his Christian subjects probably arose because of the favour they had enjoyed from the eclectic or syncretic sympathies of Alexander Severus.
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	Maximinus Thrax biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Maximinus was born in Thrace to a Gothic father and an Alanic mother.
		The troops elected the stern Maximinus, killing young Alexander and his mother at Mainz in 235.
		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-thrax.biography.ms (664 words)

	GALERIUS VALERIUS MAXIMINUS - LoveToKnow Article on GALERIUS VALERIUS MAXIMINUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		In 308, after the elevation of Licinius, he insisted on receiving the title of Augustus; on the death of Galerius, in 311, he succeeded to the supreme command of the provinces of Asia, and when Licinius and Constantine began to make common cause with one another Maximinus entered into a secret alliance with Maxentius.
		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.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MAXIMINUS_GALERIUS_VALERIUS.htm (208 words)

	Maximinus I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Maximinus I (The Thracian) Emperor A.D 235 - 238
		Maximinus' German troops were becoming demoralized and decided to do away with him.
		The Senate finally chose the popular thirteen year old grandson of the elder Gordian as their emperor, seating him on the shoulders of a tall man so the people could see him as he was clothed in the purple robes.
	users2.ev1.net /~legionary/mainevent/coins/MaximinusI.html (357 words)

	Maximinus Thrax Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
	www.ancientworlds.net /67540 (1687 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Maximinus Thrax
		When the Emperor Septimius Severus was returning through Thrace in 202, Maximinus, a shepherd of enormous stature and strength, distinguished himself in a contest with the soldiers by such Herculean strength and bravery that the emperor enrolled him in the Roman body-guard.
		Maximinus was outlawed, and his death was rumoured, but he sent Capellianus, Procurator of Numidia, against the adherents of the Gordiani, and in the struggle, the younger Gordian lost his life whereupon the senior hanged himself in despair.
		When Maximinus arrived in Upper Italy, he could not at once cross the Isonzo on account of the floods and his attacks on the stronghold of Aquileia were repulsed.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10077c.htm (663 words)

	LicinusOV
		Licinius seized the Balkan territories and Maximinus Daia got the territories in Asia Minor, Syria and Egypt,the Bosporus would be the border between their territories.
		As soon as Maximinus Daia learned about the marital alliance between Licinius and Constantine and the death of Maxentius, who had been his ally, he quickly moved his army trough a wintery Asia minor and, in April 313, crossed the Bosporus and went to Byzantium, which he took from Licinius after an eleven day siege.
		Once Licinius had defeated Maximinus Daia he gained all his territories and was welcomed by its people who where glad to be rid of the ruthless dictator Maximinus.
	www.xs4all.nl /~sp88k/Coin/Traveler/Overviews/LiciniusOV.htm (1303 words)

	Miracle of St. Maximinus
		Having come at length to the opportune time, that is the feastday of the saint, he would now be able to rejoice in the benefit promised him through the prayers of the saint and the promise of God.
		(1) Maximinus of Trier (+346/7) was an early bishop of that city, which had served as one of the Roman imperial capitals during the fourth century.
		Henry was positioned between the main altar (under which the relics of St. Maximinus were buried) and one in the apse, that is within the precincts of the monastic choir itself.
	urban.hunter.cuny.edu /~thead/henry.htm (2964 words)

	Maximinus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He came to an open rupture with Licinius in 313, sustained a crushing defeat in the neighbourhood of Heraclea Pontica on the April 30, and fled, first to Nicomedia and afterwards to Tarsus, where he died the following August.
		Another Roman Emperor Maximinus (235-238 AD) was the first barbarian king of Rome.
		He was a Thracian known for his murderous reign.
	www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Maximinus (316 words)

	ACM Presents DOUG SMITH: FEATURED COIN: "A Follis of Maximinus II" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The history of the Roman Empire in the late third and early fourth century AD was quite complex with a number of military leaders contending for power.
		One extraordinary part of this situation is recorded on scarce bronze folles issued in 308 AD in the names of Constantine I and Maximinus II.
		Coins of Constantine and Maximinus showing it are rather scarce but provide an interesting reminder of this turbulent period of Roman history.
	www.ancientcoinmarket.com /ds/featured/feature18/1.html (286 words)

	Roman Emperor (Crisis of the Third Century) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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).
		Immediately afterward the Senate backed a second pair of co-Emperors, the patrician consulars Pupienus and Balbinus, and Maximinus was murdered by his own troops in April that year.
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	Maximinus Thrax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Maximinus fue llevado en Thrace a un padre gótico y a una madre de Alanic.
		Maximinus estaba en el comando de los reclutas de Pannonia, que fueron encolerizados por los pagos de Alexander al Alemanni y a su evitación de la guerra.
		Maximinus marchó en Roma, pero en las tropas de Aquileia Maximinus, sufriendo de hambre y la enfermedad, empantanada en un sitio inesperado de la ciudad, que había cerrado sus puertas cuando se acercaron, se convirtió disaffected.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/ma/Maximinus%20Thrax.htm (749 words)

	Maximinus Thrax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Maximinus Thrax was a Roman soldier-emperor who spent his reign on campaign.
		Maximinus was a commoner born in Thrace about 173.
		Maximinus treated his men too harshly and they rose against him and killed both him and his son Maximus.
	members.shaw.ca /buzzardb/Kat-Ray/maximinus_thrax.htm (156 words)

	Maximinus II
		Maximinus II Maximinus II Maximinus II The nephew of Galerius, Maximinus "Daia" was chosen as his eastern Caesar under the shaky Tetrarchy of Diocletian.
		Maximinus was upset about this, to say the least, but somehow or other he and Licinius patched up their differences and the status quo was preserved for the time being.
		Maximinus was killed or committed suicide and Licinius had his family executed as well.
	www.dirtyoldcoins.com /natto/id/max2.htm (2556 words)

	Christian Unity and the Role of Authority:
		In the situation with Maximinus, it was as it pertained to the doctrine of the consubstantial (equal in being) nature of the Father and the Son in the Godhead that recourse to Apostolic Tradition was needed.
		Maximinus was claiming that the understanding of Scripture as proclaimed by the Church concerning the consubstantial nature of the Father and the Son was in error.
		Maximinus' claims were as a result of misunderstanding the Scriptures in their authentic sense.
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