Conscious of her unpopularity she banished, and afterwards put to death, three Gothic nobles whom she suspected of intriguing against her rule, and at the same time opened negotiations with the emperor Justinian I with the view of removing herself and the Gothic treasure to Constantinople.

His loyalty to the emperor Frederick, and the expenses incurred in this connection, aroused some irritation among his subjects, but his rule was a period of prosperity in Saxony.

Between 1673 and 1681, the Emperor Kangxi suppressed an uprising of three generals in Southern China who had been denied hereditary rule to large fiefdoms granted by the previous emperor ; he also put down a Ming restorationist invasion from Taiwan, called the Revolt of the Three Feudatories.

Under this " Tetrarchy ", or " rule of four ", each emperor would rule over a quarter-division of the Empire.

This situation continued under the rule of his father Vespasian, who became emperor in 69 following the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.

For the majority of his reign, there was no widespread dissatisfaction with the emperor or his rule.

Through centuries of international convention, this has become the dominant rule to identifying an emperor in the modern era.

In 325 AD Constantine I abolished the system and restored single emperor rule, but following the death of Theodosius in 395 AD, the empire returned to the system of co-emperors, each with primary authority for half the empire.

The new imperial title may have sounded less prestigious than the old one, but Francis ' dynasty continued to rule from Austria and a Habsburg monarch was still an emperor ( Kaiser ), and not just merely a king ( König ), in name.

Kaisertum might literally be translated as " emperordom " ( on analogy with " kingdom ") or " emperor-ship "; the term denotes specifically " the territory ruled by an emperor ", and is thus somewhat more general than Reich, which in 1804 carried connotations of universal rule.

The system of government by retired emperor ( daijō tennō ) ( cloistered rule ) beginning from 1087 further weakened the Fujiwara's control over the Imperial Court.

After Gallienus was assassinated outside Milan in the summer of 268 in a plot led by high officers in his army, Claudius was proclaimed emperor and headed to Rome to establish his rule.

* 98 – Trajan succeeded his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor ; under his rule the Roman Empire would reach its maximum extent.

At the end of the 10th century, much of what is now Republic of Macedonia became the political and cultural center of the First Bulgarian Empire under Tsar Samuil ; while the Byzantine emperor Basil II came to rule the eastern part of the empire ( what is now Bulgaria ), including the then capital Preslav, in 972.

He established the Empire by building up a society and government in the newly conquered city of Adrianople ( Edirne in Turkish ) and by expanding the realm in Europe, bringing most of the Balkans under Ottoman rule and forcing the Byzantine emperor to pay him tribute.

The writings of Procopius are the primary source of information for the rule of the Roman emperor Justinian.

After a short period of Genoese rule ( 1205 – 1220 ), which favoured a rise of trades, Syracuse was conquered back by emperor Frederick II.

Proclaimed emperor in 193 by his legionaries in Noricum during the political unrest that followed the death of Commodus, he secured sole rule over the empire in 197 after defeating his last rival, Clodius Albinus, at the Battle of Lugdunum.

The first phase, sometimes referred to as the Diarchy (" rule of two "), involved the designation of the general Maximian as co-emperor — firstly as Caesar ( junior emperor ) in 285, followed by his promotion to Augustus in 286.

In the most common usage of the term, some civil rulers are leaders of the dominant religion ( e. g., the Byzantine emperor as patron of the head of the official Church ); the government claims to rule on behalf of God or a higher power, as specified by the local religion, and divine approval of government institutions and laws.

Theodosius was the last emperor to rule over both the eastern and the western halves of the Roman Empire.

** While Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his Imperial Bodyguard leads a military coup against his rule, proclaiming that the emperor's son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, is the new emperor.

Zhangdi is succeeded by his 9-year old son Zhao, who will reign until 105 as emperor Han Hedi, but he will be a virtual pawn of Empress Dou ( adoptive mother ) and scheming courtiers who will effectively rule the Chinese Empire.

It took several years for Augustus to develop the framework within which a formally republican state could be led under his sole rule.

By the end of his sole rule ( AD 14 ), Augustus had expanded the empire to the line of the Danube river, which was to remain its central / eastern European border for its entire history ( except for the occupation of Dacia 105-275 ).

Between 28-24 BC Augustus ' military campaigns pacified all Hispania under Roman rule, with the foundation of Roman cities like Asturica Augusta ( Astorga ) and Bracara Augusta ( Braga ) to the north, and to the south Emerita Augusta ( Mérida ) ( settled with the emeriti of the Legio V Alaudae and Legio X Gemina legions ).

However, it took a few centuries for Rome to become the great city of popular imagination, and it only became a great empire after the rule of Augustus ( Octavian ).

Unable to rule himself, he appoints his son Romulus Augustus.

In addition, the Aeneid attempted to legitimize the rule of Julius Caesar ( and by extension, of his adopted son Augustus and his heirs ) by renaming Aeneas ' son, Ascanius ( called Ilus from Ilium, meaning Troy ), Iulus and offering him as an ancestor of the gens Julia, the family of Julius Caesar, and many other great imperial descendants as part of the prophecy given to him in the Underworld.

After German Emperor Wilhelm II was forced to abdicate following the exhaustion and defeat of the German Empire in World War I, monarchic rule ended in Oldenburg as well with the abdication of Grand Duke Frederick Augustus II of Oldenburg ( Friedrich August II von Oldenburg ) on 11 November 1918.

Lacking a good precedent of successful one-man rule, Augustus created a junta of the greatest military magnates and stood as the front man.

Under Augustus ' Roman rule, since 27 BC the province of Aquitania was further stretched to the north to the River Loire, thus including proper Gaul tribes along with old Aquitani south of the Garonne ( cf.

Archelaus was judged incompetent by the Roman emperor Augustus who then combined Samaria, Judea proper and Idumea into Iudaea province under rule of a prefect until 41.

Founded by the Romans in 268 BC, throughout their period of rule Rimini was a key communications link between the north and south of the peninsula, and on its soil Roman emperors erected monuments like the Arch of Augustus and the Tiberius Bridge, while during the Renaissance, the city benefited from the court of the House of Malatesta, which hosted artists like Leonardo and produced works such as the Malatesta Temple.

Later, probably around the rule of Augustus, it became part of the Roman Empire.

Syme's main conclusion was that the structure of the Republic and its Senate were inadequate for the needs of Roman rule ; Augustus was merely doing what was necessary to restore order in public life, but was a dictatorial figure whose true nature was cloaked by the panegyrics written to honor him in his last years and after his death.

Themes treated by the novel include the conflict between liberty ( as demonstrated by the Roman Republic, and the dedication to its ideals shown by Augustus and young Claudius ), and the stability of Empire and centralized rule ( as represented by Livia Drusilla, Herod Agrippa, and the older Claudius ).

The program of the Ara Pacis addressed this group's very real fears of cyclical history, and promised that the rule of Augustus would avert the cataclysmic destruction of the world predicted by contemporary models of historical thought.

Augustus, the first Roman emperor, justified the novelty of one-man rule with a vast program of religious revivalism and reform.

Augustus, the first Roman emperor, justified the novelty of one-man rule with a vast program of religious revivalism and reform.

Diocletian established the Tetrarchy, a system by which the Roman Empire was divided into East and West, with each having an Augustus to rule over it and a Caesar to assist him.

It supplied troops to Julius Caesar and benefited from his rule, but later supported Marcus Iunius Brutus and the Senate in their conflict with Augustus, who, having won, in 40 BC confiscated Cremona's land and redistributed it to his men.

At the beginning of Augustus rule, in 25 BC, this legion was relocated in Hispania, to fight in the Cantabrian Wars, which definitively established Roman power in Hispania, and later camped in Hispania Tarraconensis.

The period of rule by the Caesars was known as the " Pax Augusti " ( peace of Augustus ), and was the beginning of the era known as the " Pax Romana " ( Roman Peace ).

Despite qualified support for Antipas from Herodian family members in Rome, who favoured direct Roman rule of Judea but considered Antipas preferable to his brother, Augustus largely confirmed the division of territory set out by Herod in his final will.

However, the duchy was never allowed to develop as a truly independent state ; Frederick Augustus ' rule was subordinated to the requirements of the French raison d ' état, who largely treated the state as a source of resources.