Maximinus Thrax
c. 173 CE–c. 238 CE · Philippopolis
Maximinus Thrax (c. 173–238 CE) was Roman emperor from 235 to 238 and the first of the soldier-emperors whose rise opened the Crisis of the Third Century; of Thracian frontier origin, he came up through the army ranks rather than from the senatorial or equestrian elite. According to the Christian historian Eusebius, on taking power he reversed his predecessor's tolerance and ordered action against the leaders of the churches; this episode is traditionally linked to the exile of Pope Pontian and the Roman presbyter Hippolytus to the mines of Sardinia in 235, though modern scholars debate whether it was an empire-wide directive or scattered local persecutions. He spent his reign campaigning on the northern frontiers and was killed by his own troops at Aquileia in 238.
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About Philippopolis
Philippopolis is modern Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second-largest city. A Thracian settlement in origin, it was taken by Philip II of Macedon in the 340s BCE and named after a Philip; Rome incorporated it in 46 CE, also calling it Trimontium, and the Goths sacked it in 250. The miaphysite leader Philoxenus of Mabbug is recorded as having died there in exile in 523. Contested for centuries between Byzantium and Bulgaria, it came under Ottoman rule in the 14th century as Filibe. Sephardic Jews settled there in the 16th and 17th centuries, the community numbered over 2,000 in 1885, and most of its members left after 1948.
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