Aurelian was born on 9 September, most likely in 214 AD, although 215 AD is also possible. The ancient sources are not agreed on his place of birth, although he was generally accepted as being a nativ ...
Major sources for Gothic history include Ammianus Marcellinus' Res gestae, which mentions Gothic involvement in the civil war between emperors Procopius and Valens of 365 and recounts the Gothic refug ...
Further information: GautThe Goths have been referred to by many names, perhaps at least in part because they comprised many separate ethnic groups, but also because in early accounts of Proto-Indo-Eu ...
Claudius' origin is Illyrian. Born on May 10, 213, he was either from Sirmium in Pannonia Inferior or from Naissus Dardania (in Moesia Superior).Military Career and rise to power Claudius had served w ...
Christians in the Sassanid Empire belonged mainly to the Nestorian Church (Church of the East) and the Jacobite Church (Syriac Orthodox Church) branches of Christianity. Although these churches origin ...
The Sassanids established an empire roughly within the frontiers achieved by the Parthian Arsacids, with the capital at Ctesiphon in the Khvarvaran province. In administering this empire, Sassanid rul ...
Conflicting accounts shroud the details of the fall of the Parthian Empire and subsequent rise of the Sassanid Empire in mystery. The Sassanid Empire was established in Estakhr by Ardashir I.Papak was ...
Unlike many of the ephemeral emperors and rebels who bid for Imperial Power during the Crisis of the Third Century of the Roman Empire, Valerian was of a noble and traditional senatorial family. Detai ...
Postumus was immediately recognized as emperor in Gaul (except perhaps for Narbonensis), the two Germanias, and Raetia. By 261, Britannia, Gallia Narbonensis and Hispania had also acknowledged him as ...
The Roman Crisis of the Third Century continued as Emperor Valerian was defeated and captured by the Sassanid Empire of Persia, leaving his son Gallienus in very shaky control. Shortly thereafter, the ...
Zenobia was born and raised in Palmyra, Syria. Her Roman name was "Julia Aurelia Zenobia" and Latin and Greek writers referred to her as "Zenobia" (Greek: ? Ζηνοβ?α) or as "Septimia Zenobia"— ...
The Patriarchate of Alexandria was founded by Mark the Evangelist around 33. The historian Helmut Koester has suggested, with some evidence, that originally the Christians in Egypt were predominantly ...
As a province, Aegyptus was ruled by a prefect instead of the traditional senatorial governor of other Roman provinces. The prefect was a man of equestrian rank and was appointed by the Emperor. The f ...
In 270, Aurelian became Roman Emperor. After defeating the Alamanni, who had invaded Italy, Aurelian turned his attention to the lost eastern provinces - the Palmyrene Empire.Asia Minor was recovered ...
Further information: Palestine § Boundaries and name and Timeline of the name PalestineThe earliest numismatic evidence for the name Syria Pal?stina comes from the period of emperor Marcus Aurelius ...
