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Carinus

c. 250 CE–c. 285 CE · Rome

Carinus (Marcus Aurelius Carinus, c. 250–285 CE) was a Roman emperor who ruled the western provinces from 283 to 285, having been elevated by his father, the emperor Carus. After the deaths of Carus and his brother Numerian, Carinus confronted the eastern claimant Diocletian and was defeated and killed at the Battle of the Margus in Moesia, an outcome that left Diocletian sole ruler of the empire.

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RomeרומאItaly

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About Rome

Rome, on the Tiber in central Italy, grew from an Iron Age settlement into the capital of the Roman Republic and then of an empire that by the 1st century CE ruled the whole Mediterranean. Its Jewish community, attested from the 2nd century BCE, is among the oldest in Europe. Christian tradition holds that the apostles Peter and Paul died there, and the city became the seat of the popes. After the Western Empire ended in 476 it passed to Gothic kings, to Byzantium and then to papal rule as capital of the Papal States, until it became the capital of unified Italy in 1871. Vatican City, independent since 1929, lies within it.

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Porphyrius, Numerian

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In the same tradition

Porphyrius, Numerian

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