Numerian
c. 253 CE–c. 284 CE · Rome
Numerian (Marcus Aurelius Numerius Numerianus, c. 253 – November 284 CE) was the younger son of the emperor Carus, with whom he campaigned against the Sasanian Persians. He became co-emperor with his brother Carinus in 283 and ruled the eastern half of the empire. Travelling slowly homeward from the Persian campaign, reportedly suffering an eye ailment and carried in a closed litter, he died in obscure circumstances in 284 while in Asia Minor.
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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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