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		the first of many foreign emperors that showed the Roman Empire to be a vast,...
		Roman emperor by the Pope on Christmas Day, 800.
		Chronicle of the Roman Emperors: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the...
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	Roman Emperors - DIR Titus
		Titus was born on 30 December A.D. 39 in Rome, one of three children of Vespasian, Roman emperor (A.D. 69-79), and Domitilla I, daughter of a treasury clerk.
		Beset by violent factional strife and internal discord, Jerusalem was a stubborn obstacle to the Roman pacification of Judaea.
		Before becoming emperor, tradition records that Titus was feared as the next Nero, a perception that may have developed from his association with Berenice, his alleged heavy-handedness as praetorian prefect, and tales of sexual debauchery..
	www.roman-emperors.org /titus.htm (3007 words)

	principate - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		In 27 bc the civil wars of the 1st century Republic were ended by Roman statesman Gaius Octavius, the grandnephew of Julius Caesar, later to be known...
		The Principate is, according to its etymological derivation from the Latin word princeps, meaning chief or first, the political regime dominated by such a political leader, whether or not he is...
		The office of Roman Emperor went through a complex evolution over the centuries of its existence.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=principate (203 words)

	Roman Empire - Deistpedia, the Deist encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Roman Empire is also used as translation of the expression Imperium Romanum, probably the best known Latin expression where the word "imperium" is used in the meaning of a territory, the "Roman Empire", as that part of the world where Rome ruled.
		Roman titles of power were adopted by successor states and other entities with imperial pretensions, including the Frankish kingdom, the Holy Roman Empire, the first and second Bulgarian empires, the Russian/Kiev dynasties, and the German Empire.
		The Holy Roman Empire, an attempt to resurrect the Empire in the West, was established in 800 when Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as Roman Emperor on "Christ" mas Day, though the empire and the imperial office did not become formalized for some decades.
	www.templeofreason.org /test7/Roman_Empire.htm (8335 words)

	Roman Emperor information - Search.com
		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.
		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".
	webshots.search.com /reference/Roman_Emperor (3310 words)

	The Army of the Principate
		It was the first Emperor of the Roman world, Augustus (-AD14) who transformed the politically divisive and somewhat ad hoc military forces of the Republic into a fully professional army with a consistent policy towards the security of the Empire.
		Indeed, for most of the first two centuries of Roman rule the army, with the possible exception of the Praetorian guard, seemed to have abandoned its political pretensions, though it was a foolish princeps who did not pay close attention to his soldiers' welfare.
		The smallest subdivision was the contubernium, the Roman equivalent of a modern section, which consisted of 8 legionaries who shared a tent whilst on campaign and a pair of barrack rooms in their legionary fortress.
	www.romanarmy.net /Principate.htm (1631 words)

	Rome and Romania, Roman Emperors, Byzantine Emperors, etc.
		Emperors are commonly known by particular parts of their names, or by nicknames, e.g.
		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).
		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.
	www.friesian.com /romania.htm (14286 words)

	Ancient History Sourcebook: Egypt under the Roman Empire
		In Egypt, the Emperor was considered the successor of the ancient Pharaohs; his deputy - the prefect - ruled the country with an authority permitted to few other governors.
		Besides these, there are also nine Roman cohorts quartered in the city, three on the borders of Ethiopia in Syene, as a guard to that tract, and three in other parts of the country.
		The Romans, as far as they were able, corrected -- as I have said-many abuses, and established an orderly government -- by setting up vice-governors, nomarchs, and ethnarchs, whose business it was to attend to the details of administration.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/romanegypt1.html (1979 words)

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		The emperor Maximus, who had advanced as far as Ravenna, to secure that important place, and to hasten the military preparations, beheld the event of the war in the more faithful mirror of reason and policy.
		He was too sensible, that a single town could not resist the persevering efforts of a great army; and he dreaded, lest the enemy, tired with the obstinate resistance of Aquileia, should on a sudden relinquish the fruitless siege, and march directly towards Rome.
		From a part of the cylinder a little flattened was reflected the image of the sun; and by other refractions and reflections were shown the halos about sun and moon, and all the rest of the phenomena relating to celestial colors, accordingas the prism was more or less inclined towards the cylinder.
	www.lycos.com /info/emperor--fu-su.html (734 words)

	Princeps at AllExperts
		It was first given to the Emperor Augustus in 23 BC, who wisely saw that use of the titles rex 'king' or dictator would create resentment amongst senators and other influential men, who had earlier demonstrated their disapproval by supporting the assassination of Julius Caesar.
		The word Emperor itself is derived from the Roman title imperator, which was a very high, but not exclusive, military title until Augustus began to use it as his praenomen.
		The Emperor Diocletian (285-305), the father of the Tetrarchy, was the first to stop referring to himself as "princeps" altogether, calling himself dominus ("Lord, master"), thus dropping a style- pretense that emperor was not truly a monarchical office.
	en.allexperts.com /e/p/pr/princeps.htm (617 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Diocletian
		In 282, the legions of the upper Danube proclaimed the praetorian prefect Carus as emperor.
		Diocletian found favor under the new emperor, and was promoted to Count of the Domestics, the commander of the cavalry arm of the imperial bodyguard.
		In 286, Diocletian promoted Maximianus to the rank of Augustus, "Senior Emperor," and in 293 he appointed two new Caesars, Constantius (the father of Constantine I), who was given Gaul and Britain in the west, and Galerius, who was assigned the Balkans in the east.
	www.roman-emperors.org /dioclet.htm (1592 words)

	Romanization
		THE JULIO-CLAUDIAN PERIOD (A.D. 14-70); so-called because all the emperors descended from Augustus (by adoption he was member of the Julian clan) and from the two children (of the Claudian clan) his wife Livia brought into his household when they married.
		The power of the emperor increased enormously in the period because these men were "good" emperors and found it easier to establish precedents.
		Didactic: all Roman writers had a strong social, moral and patriotic consciousness that their art could be and should be used for social improvement.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~klio/wc06-/15-principate.htm (997 words)

	Roman History Questions
		During the Roman Republic, two men were elected yearly and served as the chief magistrates of the state.
		On his death bed, the Emperor Septimius Severus reportedly said to his two sons, "agree with each other, enrich the soldiers, and despise everyone else." Name one of his sons, who became co-emperors after their father's death.
		Name either the year in which the last Roman Emperor in the West was deposed, or the Ostrogothic chieftain who overthrew him.
	bama.ua.edu /~ksummers/LATINDAY/handouts/romanhistory.htm (2443 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Claudius
		His reign represents a turning point in the history of the Principate for a number of reasons, not the least for the manner of his accession and the implications it carried for the nature of the office.
		The basic fact of the Principate, which had always been implicit in the Augustan settlement but heretofore carefully disguised, was now made plain: the emperor's position ultimately rested not on consensus but on the swords of the soldiers who paid him homage.
		She greeted foreign embassies to the emperor at Rome from her own tribunal, and those greetings were recorded in official documents; she also wore a gold-embroidered military cloak at official functions.
	www.roman-emperors.org /claudius.htm (5562 words)

	Roman Invasion of Britain
		Caesar's visit may not have overwhelmed the island but the Romans now new that Britain really did exist (many people thought that it was a magical or even made up Island before his visit) and that it had lots of valuable crops and minerals.
		The Roman Army sailed from Boulogne in France across the English Channel and landed at Richborough in Kent.
		The British tribes met the Romans in a fiercely fought battle at the River Medway.
	www.schoolshistory.org.uk /romaninvasion.htm (231 words)

	The period of the Principate
		When Octavian's Principate was established, following his victory at Aktion in 31 BC, there began for Macedonia -- as for most of the provinces -- a period of peace, order and prosperity.
		When Diocletian divided the empire in twelve dioceses in 15 BC, Macedonia regained its former boundaries, and became one of the provinces of the dioces of Moesia ('dioecesis Moesiarium').
		The constant modifications in the administration were to the detriment of both the Senate's power and the autonomy of the Macedonian cities, and to the benefit of the Emperor and his delegates.
	www.macedonian-heritage.gr /HellenicMacedonia/en/A1.7.3.html (185 words)

	SparkNotes: The Roman Empire (60 BCE-160 CE): Important Terms, People, and Events
		Cultivated by Emperors as a counterweight in the imperial administration to senators, who saw them as a distinct class.
		Was a provincial military leadership assignment, its appointment came into hands of emperors as early as Augustus.
		Not popular, in that was not an agressive emperor externally, and seemed to hint at demotion of Italy's status domestically.
	www.sparknotes.com /history/european/rome3/terms.html (1233 words)

	Roman Coins Ancient Roman Coins Roman Republican Coins Roman Imperial Coins Buy Online
		Ancient Roman coins are a popular choice for beginning collectors, because their legends are easily read, and the Roman series has a logical structure similar to collecting modern coins by date and mintmark.
		During the third century the denarius was replaced by the antoninianus, and debasement of Roman coins issued during the second half of that century reflects the effects of barbarian invasions.
		Collectors of Roman coins of the Imperial series tend to focus on getting a good portrait of each emperor, which can be a challenge since some (particularly usurpers) had brief reigns.
	www.classicalcoins.com /roman-coins.html (483 words)

	Roman People
		80,000 Roman and Italian residents of the province in a single purge.
		Upon defeating Antony and Cleopatra in 31, he reorganized the government of Rome into the "Principate," and claimed to restore the republic and to engage in a partnership with the Roman senatorial aristocracy.
		In the final days of the republic Mark Antony promoted her to consort in his administration of the eastern end of the republic and began awarding Roman provinces to her as royal territories.
	web.ics.purdue.edu /~rauhn/roman_people.htm (405 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Caligula
		Gaius was born on 31 August, A.D. 12, probably at the Julio-Claudian resort of Antium (modern Anzio), the third of six children born to Augustus's adopted grandson, Germanicus, and Augustus's granddaughter, Agrippina.
		His military activities are portrayed as ludicrous, with Gauls dressed up as Germans at his triumph and Roman troops ordered to collect sea-shells as "spoils of the sea." Modern scholars have attempted to make sense of these events in various ways.
		His reign highlighted an inherent weakness in the Augustan Principate, now openly revealed for what it was -- a raw monarchy in which only the self-discipline of the incumbent acted as a restraint on his behavior.
	www.roman-emperors.org /gaius.htm (2496 words)

	Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor Summary
		Frederick II (December 26, 1194 – December 13, 1250), of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, was a pretender to the title of King of the Romans from 1212 and unopposed holder of that monarchy from 1215.
		Frederick celebrated it with a triumph in Cremona, in the manner of an ancient Roman emperor, with the captured carroccio (later sent to the commune of Rome) and an elephant.
		Manfred received the principate of Taranto and the government of the Kingdom, Henry the Kingdom of Arles or that of Jerusalem, while the son of Henry VII was entrusted the Duchy of Austria and the Marquisate of Styria.
	www.bookrags.com /Frederick_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor (6330 words)

	Romans and Latin: emperor
		He took the absolute power, resigned the senate, improved the admistration in country provinces, unified Italy, made colonies, divided the grounds, made a Roman empire of the conquered regions and made clear the ruling to avoid poverty.
		Gaius Octavius was born in Rome on the 23th September in 63 B.C. His form of government was by the history writers named the "principate".
		Augustus died in the year 14 A.C. during a trip to Campanian; he was 76 years old and he had ruled 41 years.
	www.romans-latin.net /emperor.htm (443 words)

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		However, Hadrian was Emperor and his life was not really his to give.
		Many letters and rescripts of Hadrian have survived, which, in their variety, illustrate the almost infinite range of matters which were referred to the emperor.
		In 121, at the request of Plotina, who was deeply interested in the Epicurean School at Athens, he permits the presidency of the school to be assumed by someone who is not a Roman citizen, thereby increasing the pool of potential candidates substantially.
	www.lycos.com /info/emperor--emperor-hadrian.html (247 words)

	The Roman Empire (27 B.C.-393 A.D.) \| Thematic Essay \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It was a time when the distinction between provincials and Romans diminished as a greater number of emperors, senators, citizens, and soldiers came from provincial backgrounds and Italians no longer dominated the empire.
		Successors to the emperor were chosen from men of tried ability, and not according to the dynastic principle.
		The emperor Valens was killed by the Visigoths at Adrianople in 378 A.D., and the succeeding emperor, Theodosius I (r.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/roem/hd_roem.htm (1577 words)

	Anno Urbis - The Roman Empire Online
		This site is dedicated to bringing you information about the wonder that was the Roman Empire and how its legacy still shapes our history, our language, and the foundations of our society and its institutions.
		The Romans measured their calendar from the foundation of the City, or "Anno urbis conditae".
		And we have introduced a forum where anyone interested in roman history or society can post ideas or ask questions.
	www.annourbis.com (656 words)

	The Roman Legion
		Roman Histories" you will see that the histories of 'this' Rome and the real Rome diverge at the end of the 2nd Century BC.
		The Emperor, combining a number of previous Republican magistracies and several extraordinary powers in his person, is the de facto master of the Empire.
		As a new Roman you will not need to worry about honor/prestige until you are ready to promote yourself to Quaestor (in politics) or Tribune (in the army).
	www.romanlegion.com /newbiesguide.php?RomanSession=03b893d73789b638989e04f4279aa0a5 (4549 words)

	Early Empire
		Augustus' ascendancy as the first Roman Emperor in 27 BC, followed by confirmation of his powers in 23 and 19 BC, marked a clear, irrevocable, yet necessary change in Roman political philosophy.
		The Principate (from the imperial title Princips for 'first among equals') as the early empire was known, was established simply through the brilliance of Augustus, and of course through the efforts of those who supported him.
		A final settlement of resistance to Roman rule, which had so easily propped up in the wake of attention given to internal conflicts, was necessary on a fairly wide scale.
	www.unrv.com /early-empire/early-empire.php (863 words)

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