Valerian ruled as emperor of the Roman Empire from 253 CE until his capture in 260 CE. https://www.worldhistory.org/valerian/ #History #BarracksEmperors #CrisisoftheThirdCentury #Gallienus

Maximinius Thrax ruled briefly as the Roman emperor from 235 CE to his death in 238 CE. https://www.worldhistory.org/Maximinus_Thrax/ #History #BarracksEmperors #CrisisoftheThirdCentury #MaximinusThrax

Gallienus was Roman emperor from 253 to 268 CE. https://www.worldhistory.org/Gallienus/ #History #Alemanni #BarracksEmperors #CrisisoftheThirdCentury

The Roman Empire, at its height (c. 117 CE), was the most extensive political and social structure in western civilization. By 285 CE the empire had grown too vast to be ruled from the central government at Rome and so was divided by Emperor Diocletian (r. 284-305 CE) into a Western and an Eastern Empire. The Roman Empire began when Augustus Caesar (r. 27 BCE-14 CE) became the first emperor of ...https://www.worldhistory.org/Roman_Empire/ #Ambiorix #CrisisoftheThirdCentury #Empire

The Battle of Abritus was an engagement fought between the armies of Rome under the emperor Decius (249-251 CE) and a coalition of Goths under the leadership of Cniva (c. 250 - c. 270 CE) in 251 CE resulting in a victory for Cniva and the death of Decius and his son in a total defeat of the Roman army. The Romans had no choice afterwards but to allow Cniva to march out of Roman territory with a...https://www.worldhistory.org/Battle_of_Abritus/ #BattleofAbritus #Cniva #CrisisoftheThirdCentury