Florianus
c. 232 CE–c. 276 CE · Rome
Marcus Annius Florianus was, according to the Historia Augusta, the maternal half-brother of the emperor Tacitus, who appointed him praetorian prefect. On Tacitus' death in 276 CE Florianus was proclaimed emperor and was recognized in Italy and much of the western empire, while his rival Probus held the East. After a reign of roughly eighty-eight days he was killed by his own troops near Tarsus in Cilicia during the standoff with Probus, who then took the throne. His birth year and birthplace are not securely attested; ancient sources give no firm details, though Interamna (his half-brother's family seat) and a Danubian province are among the suggestions.
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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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