Septimius Severus
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Severus, Lucius Septimius Severus Augustus
Septimius Severus (145 - 211) was Roman emperor from 193 to 211. He was born in Leptis Magna in the Roman province of Africa. As a young man he advanced through the cursus honorum - the customary succession of offices - under the reigns of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus. Severus seized power after the death of Emperor Pertinax in 193 during the Year of the Five Emperors.
After deposing and killing the incumbent emperor Didius Julianus, Severus fought his rival claimants, the generals Pescennius Niger and Clodius Albinus. Niger was defeated in 194 at the Battle of Issus in Cilicia. Later that year Severus waged a short punitive campaign beyond the eastern frontier, annexing the Kingdom of Osroene as a new province. Severus defeated Albinus three years later at the Battle of Lugdunum in Gaul.
After consolidating his rule over the western provinces, Severus waged another brief, more successful war in the east against the Parthian Empire, sacking their capital Ctesiphon in 197 and expanding th…more
After deposing and killing the incumbent emperor Didius Julianus, Severus fought his rival claimants, the generals Pescennius Niger and Clodius Albinus. Niger was defeated in 194 at the Battle of Issus in Cilicia. Later that year Severus waged a short punitive campaign beyond the eastern frontier, annexing the Kingdom of Osroene as a new province. Severus defeated Albinus three years later at the Battle of Lugdunum in Gaul.
After consolidating his rule over the western provinces, Severus waged another brief, more successful war in the east against the Parthian Empire, sacking their capital Ctesiphon in 197 and expanding th…more
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The Wall: Rome's Greatest Frontier
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2009
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The Picts: A History
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2008
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The Makers of Scotland
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2012
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Dark North
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Finding Arthur: The Truth Behind the Legend of the Once and Future King
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2008
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The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78
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Septimius Severus: The African Emperor
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1971
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The Men of the North: The Britons of Southern Scotland
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2010
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A New History of the Picts
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2010
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Septimius Severus in Scotland: The Northern Campaigns of the First Hammer of the Scots
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2018
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