| Throughout the reign of emperor Constantine the Great, the Visigoths continued to conduct raids on Roman territory south of the Danube River. |
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| On 20 December 69, Vitellius was defeated, and the following day Vespasian was declared emperor by the Senate. |
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| Stories of a supernatural emperor who was destined to rule circulated in the empire. |
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| As the dispute could not be settled, the Byzantine emperor, Tiberius II Constantine, undertook to arbitrate. |
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| The wars began in the last years of the reign of Augustus, first emperor of Rome. |
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| According to the local legend, the emperor did not die, but instead went to sleep in this castle. |
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| The Holy Roman Empire emerged around 800, as Charlemagne, king of the Franks, was crowned by the pope as emperor. |
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| The third Roman eagle was recovered in AD 41 by Publius Gabinius, under the emperor Claudius. |
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| In 457, Ricimer overthrew another emperor, Avitus, raising Majorian to the throne. |
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| Although Albert himself only reigned for a year, henceforth every emperor of the Holy Roman Empire was a Habsburg, with only one exception. |
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| This left the responsibility for the end of the war, on 3 November 1918, solely to the emperor and his government. |
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| By the 3rd century the emperor Caracalla made a new division which lasted only a short time. |
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| Successive Visigothic kings ruled Hispania as patricians who held imperial commissions to govern in the name of the Roman emperor. |
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| This was a surprise to many who believed Augustus would have named an heir to his position as an unofficial emperor. |
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| Consequently, there are many excellent statues and busts of the first emperor. |
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| His memory was enshrined in the political ethos of the Imperial age as a paradigm of the good emperor. |
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| After the death of his brother, Domitian was declared emperor by the Praetorian Guard. |
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| Support for the old emperor waned as more legions around the empire pledged their allegiance to Vespasian. |
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| The following day, 21 December, the Senate proclaimed Vespasian emperor of the Roman Empire. |
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| Several days prior to the assassination, Minerva had appeared to the emperor in a dream. |
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| The servant, who was himself one of the plotters, lied to the emperor, telling him that it was already late in the afternoon. |
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| During the attack, Stephanus and Domitian had struggled on the floor, during which time he was stabbed by the emperor and died shortly afterward. |
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| The Fasti Ostienses, the Ostian Calendar, records that the same day the Senate proclaimed Marcus Cocceius Nerva emperor. |
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| These baths were later expanded by the third century emperor Decius as a means of stressing his link to Trajan. |
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| When Nerva died on 27 January 98, Trajan succeeded to the role of emperor without any outward incident. |
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| For the next seven years, Trajan ruled as a civilian emperor, to the same acclaim as before. |
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| Also, no source mentions the emperor being near the front when the disaster occurred, whereas by 170 Marcus Aurelius had settled there. |
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| They came under the command of Claudius Pompeianus, with the future emperor Pertinax as one of his lieutenants. |
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| After the successful suppression of Cassius' revolt, the emperor returned to Rome for the first time in nearly 8 years. |
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| In 232 there was a mutiny in the Syrian legion, who proclaimed Taurinus emperor. |
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| Alexander was the last of the Syrian emperors and the first emperor to be overthrown by military discontent on a wide scale. |
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| Silvanus had been forced by the allegedly false accusations of his enemies into proclaiming himself emperor in Gaul. |
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| After Julian's death, Ammianus accompanied retreat of the new emperor Jovian as far as Antioch. |
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| He was residing in Antioch in 372 when a certain Theodorus was thought to have been identified the successor to the emperor Valens by divination. |
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| This raised his popularity even further, giving him considerable political leverage over even the emperor. |
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| However, Ambrose feared the consequences and prevailed upon the emperor to have the matter determined by a council of the Western bishops. |
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| In 385 or 386 the emperor and his mother Justina, along with a considerable number of clergy and laity, especially military, professed Arianism. |
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| Theodosius I, the emperor of the East, espoused the cause of Justina, and regained the kingdom. |
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| Immense as his terms were, the emperor would have been well advised to grant them. |
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| With their consent, he set up a rival emperor, the prefect of the city, a Greek named Priscus Attalus. |
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| Alaric cashiered his ineffectual puppet emperor after eleven months and again tried to reopen negotiations with Honorius. |
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| As the emperor had ordered the army to stay within the limites except for punitive expeditions, they were as much a mental barrier as material. |
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| The future emperor was named Romulus after his maternal grandfather, a nobleman from Poetovio in Noricum. |
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| As Romulus was an alleged usurper, Julius Nepos claimed to hold legally the title of the emperor when Odoacer took power. |
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| Like Odoacer, Theoderic was ostensibly only a viceroy for the emperor in Constantinople. |
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| In reality, he was able to avoid imperial supervision, and dealings between the emperor and Theoderic were as equals. |
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| At the end of his reign quarrels arose with his Roman subjects and the Byzantine emperor Justin I over the Arianism issue. |
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| A dispute with the Eastern Roman emperor at Constantinople caused Valamir to lead his Ostrogoths against him. |
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| It was in both characters together that he set out in 488, by commission from the Byzantine emperor Zeno, to recover Italy from Odoacer. |
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| The emperor quickened the process of removing military command from governors. |
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| Finally, denarii were issued in Rome in the names of pope and emperor from Leo III and Charlemagne onwards to the late tenth century. |
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| He was the first recognised emperor in western Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire three centuries earlier. |
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| The Byzantine emperor sent an angry letter to his western counterpart, reprimanding him for usurping the title of emperor. |
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| As a reward, the Byzantine emperor granted them lands near the Sea of Azov in what may have been the Crimean Peninsula. |
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| The last Western emperor, Romulus Augustulus, was deposed in 476 by a Germanic foederati general in Italy, Odoacer. |
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| Trajan, Roman emperor who presided over the greatest expansion in Roman history. |
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| The Guelphs supported supreme rule by the pope, and the Ghibellines favored the emperor. |
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| On Christmas Day of 800, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne emperor, restoring the title in the West for the first time in over three centuries. |
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| After the death of Charles the Fat, those crowned emperor by the pope controlled only territories in Italy. |
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| The emperor now was to be elected by a majority rather than by consent of all seven electors. |
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| African pope Victor I served during the reign of Roman emperor Septimius Severus. |
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| He took command of the government and proclaimed himself emperor. |
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| These relate that Emperor Louis the Pious' court at Ingelheim, in 839, was visited by a delegation from the Byzantine emperor. |
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| However, from 1440 to 1740, a Habsburg was always elected emperor, the throne becoming unofficially hereditary. |
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| The mansa, or emperor, had to be approved by the Great Assembly known as the Gbara, despite hereditary claims. |
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| Gopala, the first emperor of the Pala Empire was chosen by independent regional warchiefs in the 8th century. |
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| The first epidemic was recorded in 1529 and killed the emperor Huayna Capac, the father of Atahualpa. |
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| This victory restored the Danube frontier, which had not been held since the days of the emperor Heraclius. |
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| Since the office of emperor had never been technically hereditary, Andreas' claim would have been without merit under Byzantine law. |
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| At his death, the role of the emperor as a patron of Eastern Orthodoxy was claimed by Ivan III, Grand duke of Muscovy. |
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| The emperor and his officials intervened at times of crisis to ensure the provisioning of the capital, and to keep down the price of cereals. |
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| In the Byzantine state, the emperor was the sole and absolute ruler, and his power was regarded as having divine origin. |
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| Officials were arranged in strict order around the emperor, and depended upon the imperial will for their ranks. |
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| Zhu Yuanzhang would later rise to become the Hongwu Emperor, the first emperor of the Ming dynasty. |
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| The emperor dispatched some of his most trusted officers to reveal or destroy secret societies, bandits, and loyalists to his other relatives. |
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| The emperor planned to build a massive network of structures in Beijing in which government offices, officials, and the imperial family resided. |
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| The Hongwu emperor issued many edicts forbidding Mongol practices and proclaiming his intention to purify China of barbarian influence. |
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| During the turmoil, the last Ming emperor hanged himself on a tree in the imperial garden outside the Forbidden City. |
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| Despite the loss of Beijing and the death of the emperor, the Ming were not yet totally destroyed. |
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| The Hongwu emperor from 1373 to 1384 staffed his bureaus with officials gathered through recommendations only. |
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| However, the emperor died on 29 May 1425 before this could have taken place. |
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| The emperor wished to reinvigorate the tributary relations that had been promoted during the Yongle reign. |
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| Earlier, an official petitioned the emperor to reward workmen who had built temples in Nanjing. |
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| Not until 1457 and the restoration of the former emperor did political stability return. |
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| After becoming emperor, Kublai banned granting the titles of and tithes to Han Chinese warlords. |
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| At the end of 1293, the emperor refused to participate in the traditional New Years' ceremony. |
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| On the news of Emperor Yang's murder by General Yuwen Huaji on June 18, 618, Li Yuan declared himself the emperor of a new dynasty, the Tang. |
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| During the reign of emperor Tiberius, sumptuary laws were passed that forbade men from wearing silk garments, but these proved ineffectual. |
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| Legend has it that monks working for the emperor Justinian I smuggled silkworm eggs to Constantinople in hollow canes from China. |
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| It is very likely that Zhu Gaoxu's arrogance, well detailed in many historic texts, offended the emperor. |
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| A theory states that when the emperor went to visit his uncle, Zhu Gaoxu intentionally tripped him. |
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| After Ming garrisons suffered heavy casualties, the emperor sent Liu Sheng with an army. |
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| The same year the emperor reformed the rules governing military conscription and the treatment of deserters. |
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| The emperor often ordered retrials that allowed thousands of innocent people to be released. |
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| Smoking of opium came on the heels of tobacco smoking and may have been encouraged by a brief ban on the smoking of tobacco by the Ming emperor. |
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| On 31 March 1495 the Holy League was formed between the Pope, the emperor, Venice, Ludovico il Moro and Ferdinand of Spain. |
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| In AD 993, the invasion of Chola emperor Rajaraja I forced the then Sri Lankan ruler Mahinda V to flee to the southern part of Sri Lanka. |
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| This representation of India as an isolated, invincible country is an attempt to vindicate Seleucus' peace treaty with the Indian emperor. |
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| After Moctezuma I succeeded Itzcoatl as the Mexica emperor, more reforms were instigated to maintain control over conquered cities. |
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| On the death of Itzcoatl, Motecuzoma I was enthroned as the new Mexica emperor. |
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| Other holders of Spanish noble titles that descend from the Aztec emperor include Dukes of Atrisco. |
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| The Aztecs named a new emperor to replace Moctezuma, whom they regarded now as weak and easily influenced by the Spaniards. |
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| Cuauhtemoc's date of birth is unknown, as he does not enter the historical record until he became emperor. |
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| On the statue to Cuauhtemoc, on the Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City, there is a bas relief showing the Spaniards' torture of the emperor. |
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| He captured and killed Incan emperor Atahualpa, and claimed the lands for Spain. |
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| Antwerp became a margraviate in 980, by the German emperor Otto II, a border province facing the County of Flanders. |
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| Mercator also presented the emperor with a pamphlet on the use of globes and instruments and his latest ideas on magnetism. |
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| By a decision of the Austrian emperor, in November 1849, a new province was formed as the political successor of the Serbian voivodeship. |
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| They provided outstanding falcons to the emperor when he went to hunt every fall. |
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| Successive dynasties developed bureaucratic systems that enabled the emperor to control vast territories directly. |
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| The doctrine of Legalism that guided the Qin emphasized strict adherence to a legal code and the absolute power of the emperor. |
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| Several maritime Asian nations sent envoys with tribute for the Chinese emperor. |
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| During this early part of his reign, he showed himself to be a competent and diligent emperor. |
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| There are several reasons why the Wanli Emperor deliberately neglected his duties as emperor. |
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| In 1863, it was taken over by the French as they installed Maximilian I as emperor of Mexico. |
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| If I went round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away! |
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| No one had had any experience of an emperor like Commodus, a Caesar born to the purple. |
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| The emperor sent an evasive reply and, upon crossing the border, made sure that the echage marched on his right. |
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| My good behaviour had so far gained on the emperor, that I began to conceive hopes of liberty. |
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| The very emperor his throne did grace to-day, Why, never was a crowd in such a gaysome mood. |
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| Diocletian, the emperor, was so much affected with it that he gave over his sceptre and turned gardener. |
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| And sometime in AD 251, they defeated a Roman army in the Balkans, killing the emperor Decius in the process. |
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| Then in AD 476, the last Roman emperor was deposed by a German chieftain, an event which effectively ended Roman predominance in western Europe. |
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| The emperor gave them lavish gifts in gold which enticed them to plunder vast amounts. |
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| Tacitus noted the increasing dependence of the emperor on the goodwill of his armies. |
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| Tacitus's political career was largely lived out under the emperor Domitian. |
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| The entrance of Tiberius in the first chapters of the first book is dominated by the hypocrisy of the new emperor and his courtiers. |
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| In the later books, some respect is evident for the cleverness of the old emperor in securing his position. |
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| After Tincomarus, the emperor Augustus chose to recognize his brother, Eppillus, as the next client king. |
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| A killer whale was actually seen in the harbour of Ostia, locked in combat with the emperor Claudius. |
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| In the 2nd century, Pertinax, who shared his birthday, became emperor, overshadowing commemoration of Claudius. |
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| The II Augusta is known to have been commanded by the future emperor Vespasian. |
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| It is likely that the Catuvellauni were already as good as beaten, allowing the emperor to appear as conqueror on the final march on Camulodunum. |
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| The emperor Septimius Severus died at York while planning to renew hostilities, and these plans were abandoned by his son Caracalla. |
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| The Legio II Augusta, commanded by future emperor Vespasian, was the only one directly attested to have taken part. |
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| He was brought as a captive to Rome, where a dignified speech he made during Claudius's triumph persuaded the emperor to spare his life. |
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| This required that the emperor station a trusted senior man as governor of the province. |
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| The future emperor Pertinax was sent to Britannia to quell the mutiny and was initially successful in regaining control. |
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| Worship of the Roman emperor is widely recorded, especially at military sites. |
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| Plautius halted and sent word for the emperor to join him, and Claudius led the final advance to Camulodunum. |
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| Tacitus did not say why Prasutagus' naming the emperor as his heir as well as his daughters was meant to avert the risk of injury. |
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| Their king, Prasutagus, secured his independence by leaving his lands jointly to his daughters and to the Roman emperor, Nero, in his will. |
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| To add insult to injury, the Romans had erected a temple to the former emperor Claudius in the city, built at local expense. |
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| Some triumphal arches were surmounted by a statue or a currus triumphalis, a group of statues depicting the emperor or general in a quadriga. |
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| When afterwards Severus declared openly his son Caracalla as successor, Albinus was hailed emperor by his troops and moved to Gallia. |
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| As emperor, Constantine enacted many administrative, financial, social, and military reforms to strengthen the empire. |
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| He could no longer rely on his connection to the elder emperor Maximian, and needed a new source of legitimacy. |
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| Ten emperors, including the last emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, carried the name. |
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| In both medieval East and West, Constantine was presented as an ideal ruler, the standard against which any king or emperor could be measured. |
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| Under Diocletian, the flow of direct requests to the emperor rapidly reduced and soon ceased altogether. |
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| No other form of direct access replaced them, and the emperor received only information filtered through his courtiers. |
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| Goths attacked the emperor himself, but within a year Alaric was accepted as a leader of Theodosius's Gothic troops and this rebellion was over. |
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| Gerontius then fell out with his master and elevated one Maximus as his own puppet emperor. |
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| The choir at the wedding included Attalus, a puppet emperor without revenues or soldiers. |
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| Olybrius, his new emperor, named Gundobad as his patrician, then died himself shortly thereafter. |
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| After the death of Olybrius there was a further interregnum until March 473, when Gundobad proclaimed Glycerius emperor. |
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| In Roman constitutional theory, the Empire was still simply united under one emperor, implying no abandonment of territorial claims. |
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| He represents the emperor and his wife as two devils incarnate, sent into the world for the destruction of mankind. |
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| The emperor Louis I, however, opposed this arrangement and gave the kingdom to his youngest son Charles, afterwards the emperor Charles the Bald. |
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| Henry lavishly entertained the emperor and even had him enrolled in the Order of the Garter. |
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| The King of Spain was a grandson of the deceased emperor, but the electors thought him to be a foreigner as much as the French king. |
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| Domestic troubles led to the defection of Charles III, Duke of Bourbon and Constable of France, to the emperor. |
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| Francis supported the conversion of the German princes to Protestantism, as it increased his potential allies against the emperor. |
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| Although the power of a king is lesser in degree than an emperor, it is the similar in specie. |
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| The company's envoys had to prostrate themselves before the emperor, pay a large indemnity, and promise better behaviour in the future. |
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| On 21 September 1860 it defeated the army of the Chinese emperor at the Battle of Palikao and seized the capital Beijing. |
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| In 1858 the Vietnamese emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty felt threatened by the French influence and tried to expel the missionaries. |
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| Washington repeatedly warned that this meant war but the emperor kept this option open, hoping to get Britain as an ally. |
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| Enraged, the French king decided to execute a lightning campaign into Germany before the emperor could shift his troops to the West. |
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| Jefferson became president in 1801, but was hostile to Napoleon as a dictator and emperor. |
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| In 1931, Japan seized Manchuria from the Republic of China, setting up a puppet state under Puyi, the last Manchu emperor of China. |
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| The deposition of the last emperor of the west, Romulus Augustulus, in 476 has traditionally marked the end of the Western Roman Empire. |
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| As emperor, Domitian assumed totalitarian characteristics, thought he could be a new Augustus, and tried to make a personal cult of himself. |
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| This was the first time that senators chose the emperor since Octavian was honored with the titles of princeps and Augustus. |
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| Antoninus made few initial changes when he became emperor, leaving intact as far as possible the arrangements instituted by Hadrian. |
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| In 1530, he was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Clement VII in Bologna, the last emperor to receive a papal coronation. |
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| In 1520, Charles visited England, where his aunt, Catherine of Aragon, urged her husband, Henry VIII, to ally himself with the emperor. |
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| Buddhism may have spread only slowly in India until the time of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka, who was a public supporter of the religion. |
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| The emperor Charlemagne decreed that the burning of supposed witches was a pagan custom that would be punished by the death penalty. |
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| Castrorum Filius was one of names used by the emperor Caligula and then also by other emperors. |
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| The word Volkstum, or nationality, was coined in German as part of this resistance to the now conquering emperor. |
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| Guiderius refuses to pay tribute to emperor Claudius, who then invades Britain. |
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| Constantine ruled the Roman Empire as sole emperor for the remainder of his reign. |
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| In January of that year Louis of Bavaria entered Rome and had himself crowned emperor. |
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| There was no divine mandate that punished the emperor for failing to rule justly. |
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| The right to rule of the Japanese emperor, descended from the sun goddess Amaterasu, was absolute. |
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| They renamed the area Manchukuo, and on 9 March 1932 set up a puppet government, with Pu Yi, the former emperor of China, as its executive head. |
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| The Holy Roman Empire was a loose confederation of large and petty principalities under the nominal suzerainty of the emperor. |
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| It was instituted by the emperor Augustus, and was accompanied by a series of brutal military campaigns. |
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| Executive power was vested in the emperor, or Kaiser, who was assisted by a chancellor responsible only to him. |
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| However, as mentioned above, in practice the real power was vested in the emperor, who exercised it through his chancellor. |
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| On 9 March 1888, Wilhelm I died shortly before his 91st birthday, leaving his son Frederick III as the new emperor. |
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| In 800, the Frankish king Charlemagne was crowned emperor and founded the Carolingian Empire, which was later divided in 843 among his heirs. |
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| It is also traditionally associated with the rule of the legendary emperor Bharata. |
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| During Japan's shogunate, the emperor was notionally a supreme spiritual and temporal lord who delegated authority for joint rule to the shogun. |
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| The only concession that Prussia made to Austria was to consent to the election of Archduke Joseph as Holy Roman emperor. |
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| Edo became the de facto capital of Japan even while the emperor lived in Kyoto, the imperial capital. |
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| It is occupied by many major Japanese companies, and is also the seat of the national government, and the Japanese emperor. |
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| In return Italy, was to provide Menelik with arms and support him as emperor. |
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| In return, Italy was to provide Menelik with weapons and support him as emperor. |
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| In the early 14th century, the Wittelsbach emperor Louis IV, also Bavarian duke, vested the Kufstein citizens with rights of jurisdiction. |
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| Powerful local nobles turned their cities, counties and duchies into private kingdoms, that felt little sense of obligation to the emperor. |
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| Diocletian divided the empire into four regions, each ruled by a separate emperor, the Tetrarchy. |
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| A successful career required competence as an administrator and remaining in favour with the emperor, or over time perhaps multiple emperors. |
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| The new emperor had to seek a swift acknowledgement of his status and authority to stabilize the political landscape. |
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| No emperor could hope to survive, much less to reign, without the allegiance and loyalty of the Praetorian Guard and of the legions. |
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| In theory, the Senate was entitled to choose the new emperor, but did so mindful of acclamation by the army or Praetorians. |
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| The crowd could call for an outcome by booing or cheering, but the emperor had the final say. |
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| To mark the opening of the Colosseum, the emperor Titus presented 100 days of arena events, with 3,000 gladiators competing on a single day. |
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| The emperor Julian recalled his pedagogue Mardonius, a eunuch slave who reared him from the age of 7 to 15, with affection and gratitude. |
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| Rejection of the state religion became tantamount to treason against the emperor. |
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| The first persecution by an emperor occurred under Nero, and was confined to the city of Rome. |
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| With the birth of the Roman Empire, the legions created a bond with their leader, the emperor himself. |
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| In June 68, the emperor Nero was deposed and committed suicide, and the period of civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors began. |
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| One author has suggested that the emperor Domitian may have been informed of the fraudulence of his claims to have won a significant victory. |
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| Britain is surrounded by water, so it was not so easy to launch a rebellion against the emperor from there. |
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| Ancient Roman law employed a complex hierarchy of appellate courts, where some appeals would be heard by the emperor. |
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| The tale The Dream of Macsen Wledig is a romanticised story about the Roman emperor Magnus Maximus, called Macsen Wledig in Welsh. |
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| He was defeated in battle in 385 and beheaded at the direction of the Eastern Roman emperor. |
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| The western emperor Gratian had become unpopular because of perceived favouritism toward Alans over Roman citizens. |
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| Following his landing in Gaul, Maximus went out to meet his main opponent, emperor Gratian, whom he defeated near Paris. |
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| In Macsen's absence, a new emperor seizes power and warns him not to return. |
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| Eventually emperor Honorius ordered Roman troops back home to help fight the invading hordes. |
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| Constantine III initially rebelled against Honorius and took further troops to Gaul, but was later recognised as a joint emperor. |
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| His son Constantine IV succeeded him, a brief usurpation in Sicily by Mezezius being quickly suppressed by the new emperor. |
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| In this year, Charlemagne was crowned emperor and adapted his existing royal administration to live up to the expectations of his new title. |
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| Legally, the Carolingian emperor exercised the bannum, the right to rule and command, over all of his territories. |
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| This table shows only those Carolingians who were crowned as emperor by the pope in Rome. |
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| The long and triumphant reign of its first emperor, Augustus, began a golden age of peace and prosperity. |
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| Alfonso worked for being elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and published the Siete Partidas code. |
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| The Roman emperor Augustus began a cult of personality of Caesar, which described Augustus as Caesar's political heir. |
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| In this occasion, II Augusta was commanded by the future emperor Vespasian. |
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| Also found in the same area are remains of public baths built by the emperor Justinian, a seawall, quays and a bridge. |
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| At the very end of AD 69, after a year of civil war consequent on the death of Nero, Vespasian, a successful general, became emperor. |
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| The work is dedicated to the emperor Titus, a son of Pliny's close friend, the emperor Vespasian, in the first year of Titus's reign. |
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| The larvae of a number of Lepidoptera species also feed on the plant, notably the small emperor moth Saturnia pavonia. |
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| When Beijing was captured by Li Zicheng's peasant rebels in 1644, the Chongzhen Emperor, the last Ming emperor, committed suicide. |
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| After the Roman emperor Trajan's conquest of Dacia, he brought back to Rome over 165 tons of gold and 330 tons of silver. |
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| Neither the Pope nor Ambrose, bishop of Milan, where the emperor resided, granted them an audience. |
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| Maximus was recognized as emperor of Britain, Gaul and Spain, and made Trier his residence. |
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| After St Martin had left the city, the emperor appointed the Prefect Evodius as judge. |
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| The pope censured not only the actions of Ithacius but also that of the emperor. |
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| Also, in resolving political hostilities with the German emperor Frederick III of Habsburg, he invaded his western domains. |
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| The tripods were considered important artifacts, Chinese legends credit a Xia dynasty emperor with their construction. |
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| The emperor seeks only the aggrandization of his own family. |
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| The emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family. |
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| When king Rastislav of Moravia asked Byzantium for teachers who could minister to the Moravians in their own language, Byzantine emperor Michael III chose these two brothers. |
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| Failure to worship the Emperor as a god was at times punishable by death, as the Roman government sought to link emperor worship with loyalty to the Empire. |
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| Greek geographer Strabo claimed that the Dacians and Getae had been able to muster a combined army of 200,000 men during Strabo's era, the time of Roman emperor Augustus. |
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| George went on a punitive expedition against Constantinople, but could not land and instead defied the Byzantine emperor by firing arrows against the palace windows. |
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| Following Zewditu's death on 2 November 1930, he succeeded her as emperor. |
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| The ancient Roman emperor Heliogabalus enjoyed camel's heel. |
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| The city remained a free imperial city, subject to the emperor only, but was politically far too weak to influence the policies of any of its neighbours. |
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| The coronation of Charlemagne as emperor by Pope Leo III in Rome on Christmas Day, AD 800 represented a shift in the power structure from the south to the north. |
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| Charlemagne restored an equal balance between emperor and pope. |
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| After the assassination of Caligula in AD 41, the Senate briefly considered restoring the republic, but the Praetorian Guard proclaimed Claudius emperor instead. |
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| In 800 the title of emperor was revived in Western Europe by Charlemagne, whose Carolingian Empire greatly affected later European social structure and history. |
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| The emperor did not wish to execute his uncle at the start, but later events angered the emperor so much that Zhu Gaoxu was executed through fire torture. |
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| In 212 AD, by means of the edict known as the Constitutio Antoniniana, the emperor Caracalla extended citizenship to all freeborn inhabitants of the empire. |
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| A libertinus was not entitled to hold public office or the highest state priesthoods, but he could play a priestly role in the cult of the emperor. |
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| From Beijing, the Portuguese embassy heard reports that the emperor reached Tongzhou in January 1521 and had the rebel Prince of Ning executed there. |
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| The death of an emperor led to a crucial period of uncertainty and crisis. |
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| Charlemagne died in 814, having ruled as emperor for thirteen years. |
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| As the sultanate was a tributary of the Ming dynasty, the emperor demanded that the Portuguese withdraw from Malacca and restore the Malay sultan to the throne. |
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| At the center was the political node of the Imperial City, and at the center of this was the Forbidden City, the palatial residence of the emperor and his family. |
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| If the particulars of provincial law conflicted with Roman law or custom, Roman courts heard appeals, and the emperor held final authority to render a decision. |
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| The empire had a centralized, bureaucratic administration under the emperor, a large professional army, and civil services, inspiring similar developments in later empires. |
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| Thus, most present knowledge derives from archaeological investigations and occasional epigraphic evidence lauding the Britannic achievements of an emperor. |
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| On the morning of 18 December, the emperor appeared to deposit the imperial insignia at the Temple of Concord but at the last minute retraced his steps to the Imperial palace. |
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| The emperor, astounded at such audacity, demanded of him who he was. |
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| The emperor Trajan also admired Alexander, as did Nero and Caracalla. |
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| The priesthoods of the state religion were filled from the same social pool of men who held public office, and in the Imperial era, the Pontifex Maximus was the emperor. |
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| The reality of Domitian's autocracy was further highlighted by the fact that, more than any emperor since Tiberius, he spent significant periods of time away from the capital. |
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| With regards to the emperor himself as a religious figure, both Suetonius and Cassius Dio allege that Domitian officially gave himself the title of Dominus et Deus. |
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| His brush with the Inquisition did not affect his relationship with the court and Nicholas Perrenot recommended him to the emperor as a maker of superb instruments. |
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| Its forum and basilica were completed in 79 or 81, and were dedicated in an inscription by the governor, Gnaeus Julius Agricola, to the emperor Titus. |
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| Boudica's husband, Prasutagus, ruled as a nominally independent ally of Rome and left his kingdom jointly to his daughters and the Roman emperor in his will. |
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| Napoleon made himself emperor in 1804, and part of northern and central Italy was unified under the name of the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as king. |
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| Eventually, the emperor decided to free and return them to their country. |
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| Suggestions that he invented the entire episode and was thereafter shunned by the emperor do not seem likely, given that he was awarded honours on his return. |
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| During Japan's invasion from 1592 to 1598, the emperor sent more than 100,000 soldiers and he spent tremendous amounts of money for war, in excess of 5 years of tax revenues. |
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| After deposing and killing the incumbent emperor Didius Julianus, Severus fought his rival claimants, the generals Pescennius Niger and Clodius Albinus. |
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| Following the end of this term, Septimius Severus travelled back to Rome, taking up office as tribune of the plebs, with the distinction of being candidatus of the emperor. |
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| The legions of Syria, however, had proclaimed Pescennius Niger emperor. |
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| After a series of attacks in 197, the emperor Septimius Severus arrived in Scotland in 208 to secure the frontier, and repaired parts of the wall. |
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| In 358 the emperor Julian bought peace by giving them most of Germania Inferior, which they possessed anyway, and imposing service in the Roman army in exchange. |
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| Each emperor would have his own court, his own military and administrative faculties, and each would rule with a separate praetorian prefect as chief lieutenant. |
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| After his promotion to emperor, Constantine remained in Britain, driving back the tribes of the Picts and secured his control in the northwestern dioceses. |
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| Trajan rose to prominence during the reign of emperor Domitian. |
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| Thus Constantine became the sole emperor of the Roman Empire. |
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| To the left of the emperor, further south, were the commanders Cataneo, with Genoese troops, and Theophilus Palaeologus, who guarded the Pegae Gate with Greek soldiers. |
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| The motif of the Romanesque equestrian, the mounted figure in the posture of a triumphant Roman emperor, became a visual metaphor in statuary in praise of local benefactors. |
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| The last Roman emperor was deposed in 476 by the Heruli general Odoacer. |
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| Competition among Greek cities and their ruling oligarchies was mainly for marks of preeminence, especially for titles bestowed by the Roman emperor. |
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| Andragathius, magister equitum of Maximus and the killer of emperor Gratian, was defeated near Siscia while Maximus' brother, Marcellinus, fell in battle at Poetovio. |
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| The seventh emperor was Maximianus, He withdrew from Britain with all its military force, slew Gratianus the king of the Romans, and obtained the sovereignty of all Europe. |
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| Over the next three decades he conducted seven of these voyages on behalf of the emperor, trading and collecting tribute in the eastern Pacific and Indian Oceans. |
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| Procopius, in his work Secret History, declared that Justinian was a demon of an emperor who either created the plague himself or was being punished for his sinfulness. |
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| The Mongolians wiped out the Chinese army and captured the emperor. |
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| The Ethiopians, though, had never called their emperor that. |
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