Hostilian
c. 230 CE–c. 251 CE · Rome
Hostilian was the younger son of the emperor Decius, raised to the rank of caesar in 250. After his father and elder brother Herennius Etruscus were killed at the Battle of Abritus in 251, he was elevated to co-emperor (augustus) alongside Trebonianus Gallus. He died later in 251, with most ancient sources (such as Aurelius Victor and the Epitome de Caesaribus) attributing his death to the plague then sweeping the empire, though Zosimus alleges he was murdered by Gallus.
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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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