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Roman Emperor - Ancient History Encyclopedia  Oct 31, 2013 ... All of these had great leaders such as Cyrus, Darius, Xerxes, and, of course, ... In contrast, the Roman Empire was different, for it didn't have a king; it had ... away Roman liberty, or a generous statesman who shared power with the ... the old Republic remained, such as the Senate, they existed in name only.
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List of Roman emperors - Wikipedia  Roman Emperors and Empresses were rulers of the Roman Empire, wielding power over its .... Furthermore, a sitting emperor was empowered to name a successor and take him on as apprentice in government ... However, he was traditionally considered the "last Roman Emperor" by 18th and 19th century western scholars...
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Constantine the Great - Wikipedia  Constantine the Great also known as Constantine I or Saint Constantine (in the Orthodox Church as Saint Constantine the Great, Equal-to-the-Apostles), was a Roman Emperor from 306 to 337 AD. Constantine was the son of Flavius Valerius Constantius, a Roman army ... His father became Caesar, the deputy emperor in the west in 293 AD.
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Top 10 greatest emperors of Ancient Rome - AncientHistoryLists  10 Roman emperor worth remembering from Ancient Rome. ... emperors as equivalent of kings, even though the very first emperor Augustus the great ... last conquer under the rule of Justinian I, who ruled the east Roman empire (also called ... The famous emperor, who went on to become the first christian emperor in the...
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Roman emperor - Wikipedia  The Roman emperor was the ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period (starting in ... Other kings were then referred to as rgas. ... With the eventual hegemony of Christianity, the emperor came to be seen as God's chosen ... Constantine XI was the last Byzantine Roman emperor in Constantinople, dying in the...
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Alexander the Great - History of Macedonia  Alexander III the Great, the King of Macedonia and conqueror of the Persian .... with the rest of the army behind him to prevent the Thebans from cutting him off. ... The ancient Greek historian Arrian cited the "old racial rivalry between the .... to be sons of Amon-Ra and Alexander as new ruler of Egypt wanted the god to...
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Charlemagne - Wikipedia  Charlemagne also known as Charles the Great or Charles I (Frankish: Karl), was King of the ... He was laid to rest in his imperial capital of Aachen in what is today Germany. ..... In 776, Dukes Hrodgaud of Friuli and Hildeprand of Spoleto rebelled. ... Arechis II was reigning independently with the self given title of Princeps.
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Past Elder : Eastern Church/Empire, Western Church/Empire, 2016.  Jan 15, 2016 ... V. Theodosius, Last Emperor East and West, Opens New State .... Constantine went to Milan, the Western Roman capital, to forge an alliance ..... where though they weren't citizens they weren't colonies either. .... then of Otto and the Holy Roman Empire in 962, as the final transfer of ...... (The 1520 treatises.)
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King of the Romans - Holy Roman Empire Association  After the distortions during the Investiture Controversy, Charles intended to ... 1530 Charles V was the last king to receive the Imperial Crown at the hands of the Pope (in ... Finally he would travel to Rome and be crowned emperor by the pope. ... The title Romanorum Rex became functionally obsolete after 1508, when, after...
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Philip of Macedon Philip II of Macedonia Biography  King of Macedonia and Conqueror of Illyria, Thrace, and Greece ... After his fathers death, Macedonia slowly disintegrated. ..... which ruled the Eastern Roman Empire from 867 to 1056 is known as the "Golden Age" of the Empire. ... Greece gained its independence at the beginning of the 19th century with the help of the...
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Constantine the Great and Christianity - Wikipedia  While the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great reigned (306337 AD), Christianity began to transition to the dominant religion of the .... Unlike "old" Rome, the city began to employ overtly Christian architecture, contained churches ... Constantine required those who had not converted to Christianity to pay for the new city.
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Herod the Great - Wikipedia  Herod also known as Herod the Great and Herod I, was a Roman client king of Judea, referred ... Herod also appears in the Christian Gospel of Matthew as the ruler of Judea ... However, some authors think that he was born in about 72/71 BCE. .... Josephus states that Philip the Tetrarch's death took place after a 37-year...
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Check and uncheck as needed to select sections to print. Then ...  Alexander III, king of Macedonia, called "the Great," conquered the Persian ... Then he took up Philip's war of aggression against Persia, adopting his ... and in the autumn of 331 B.C. defeated Darius's grand army at Gaugamela ... In the autumn of 324, at Ecbatana, Alexander lost his boyhood friend Hephaestion, by then his...
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Constantine the Great - Wikipedia  Constantine the Great also known as Constantine I or Saint Constantine (in the Orthodox Church as Saint Constantine the Great, Equal-to-the-Apostles), was a Roman Emperor from 306 to 337 AD. Constantine was the son of Flavius Valerius Constantius, a Roman army officer, and his ... His father became Caesar, the deputy emperor in the west in 293 AD.
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Charlemagne - Wikipedia  Charlemagne also known as Charles the Great or Charles I (Frankish: Karl), was King of the ... Charlemagne reached the height of his power in 800 when he was crowned ... of the Romans by Pope Leo III on Christmas Day at Old St. Peter's Basilica. ...... He then spent the autumn hunting before returning to Aachen on 1...
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Constantine the Great and his personal tragedies | Neo Byzantium  Jan 4, 2010 ... Around 305, Constantine was blessed with a capable firstborn son; ... He made sure that Crispus received his education from the learned Christian scholar Lactantius. ... All that is certain is that Constantine executed Crispus in 326, at the ... The Western Roman emperor Maximian married his youngest...
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Charlemagne - Wikipedia  Charlemagne also known as Charles the Great or Charles I (Frankish: Karl), was King of the ... Charlemagne died in 814, having ruled as emperor for just over thirteen ...... crowned him Imperator Romanorum ("Emperor of the Romans") in Saint ...... Charlemagne was a lover of books, sometimes having them read to him...
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Constantine XI Palaiologos - Wikipedia  Constantine XI Dragases Palaiologos, Latinized as Palaeologus (Greek:  '  , Knstantinos XI Dragass Palaiologos; 8 February 1405  29 May 1453) was the last reigning Byzantine Emperor, reigning as a member of the Palaiologos dynasty from 1449 to his death in battle at the fall of ...
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The genealogical tree of Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor  Charlemagne (Charles the Great), King of the Franks and Lombards, ... to Pope Hadrian, and so he called for the Frankish kings for protection. ... (He is reckoned as Charles I of the Holy Roman Empire, as well as Charles I of France.) .... these papal aims in the name of the first Christian emperor, Constantine I the Great.
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George I of Greece - New World Encyclopedia  Nov 18, 2008 ... Prince Vilhelm of Denmark, later King George I of the Hellenes ... Eventually, the Greeks and Great Powers narrowed their choice to Prince William of Denmark. ... first Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia (1863-1919) and ... from the throne declaring that in future the leader of the majority party in...
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Theodoric | king of Italy | Britannica.com  Theodoric. King of Italy. Also known as. Theodoric the Great; Theodoricus ... At the time of his birth the Ostrogoths had recently escaped from the empire of the ... aside the skins or furs that Germanic rulers usually wore and surrounded his throne with ... The Goths were divided from the Romans by language, for Gothic in the...