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The Year Of The Six Roman Emperors

Thanasis Papadopoulos
Exploring History
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3 min readJun 16, 2021

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The Crisis of Rome, where six people became emperors in a single year. Among them, the youngest and the oldest Roman emperor to ever exist.

The Crisis of the Third Century, also known as Military Anarchy and Imperial Crisis (235–284 AD) was a period where the Roman Empire nearly collapsed. Due to political instability, barbarian invasions, civil wars, rebellions, soldiers turning to mercenaries, Rome…

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Thanasis Papadopoulos
Exploring History

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