Gordian III
c. 225 CE–c. 244 CE · Rome
Gordian III became Roman emperor in 238 CE at about thirteen years of age, making him one of the youngest ever to rule the empire alone. After a reign during which power was largely exercised by his praetorian prefects, he died in 244 CE while on campaign against the Sasanian Persians in Mesopotamia.
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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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