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Geta

c. 189 CE–c. 211 CE · Rome

Publius Septimius Geta (189-211 CE) was the younger son of the emperor Septimius Severus and Julia Domna, and ruled as Severan co-emperor alongside his elder brother Caracalla after their father's death in February 211. Unable to share power, Caracalla had Geta murdered in their mother's apartments in December 211 and then subjected his memory to a thorough damnatio memoriae.

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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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