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Rumors alleging that Diocletian's death was merely being kept secret until Galerius could come to assume power spread through the city.

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When the proposed government of universal Christendom by five patriarchal sees ( Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem, known as the pentarchy ), under the auspices of a single universal empire, was formulated in the legislation of Emperor Justinian I ( 527-565 ), especially in his Novella 131, and received formal ecclesiastical sanction at the Council in Trullo ( 692 ), the name " patriarch " became the official one for the Bishops of these sees, and the title " Exarch " remained the proper style of the metropolitans who ruled over the three remaining ( political ) dioceses of Diocletian's division of the Eastern Prefecture, namely the Exarchs of Asia ( at Ephesus ), of Cappadocia and Pontus ( at Caesarea ), and of Thrace ( at Heraclea Sintica ).
The feast day is sacred to ethnic Serbs ( Serbian Orthodox Christians ), who transformed the pagan Slavic god ( deity ) of war, fertility and abundance " Svetovid " ( Vid ) into the Sicilian martyr ( St. Vitus )-who exorcised the evil out of Diocletian's son, at the time of the final Christianization of the Serbs during the rule of Basil I ( 867 – 886 ) by Byzantine missionaries of Constantinople Cyril and Methodius.
Only ten years later, Christianity was made legal in Egypt by Diocletian's successor Constantine I.
Following Diocletian's abdication in 305, civil war erupted among the various co-emperors, during which time each of the contenders appointed his own prefect, a pattern carried on during the period where the Empire was shared between Licinius and Constantine I.

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Diocletian's stay in the East saw diplomatic success in the conflict with Persia: in 287, Bahram II granted him precious gifts, declared open friendship with the Empire, and invited Diocletian to visit him.
Diocletian's attempts to bring the Egyptian tax system in line with Imperial standards stirred discontent, and a revolt swept the region after Galerius ' departure.
Diocletian's reforms in the region, combined with those of Septimus Severus, brought Egyptian administrative practices much closer to Roman standards.
Antioch was Diocletian's primary residence from 299 to 302, while Galerius swapped places with his Augustus on the Middle and Lower Danube.
In keeping with his move from an ideology of republicanism to one of autocracy, Diocletian's council of advisers, his consilium, differed from those of earlier Emperors.
As with most Emperors, much of Diocletian's daily routine rotated around legal affairs — responding to appeals and petitions, and delivering decisions on disputed matters.
The most that can be said about built structures under Diocletian's reign is that he rebuilt and strengthened forts at the Upper Rhine frontier ( where he followed the works made under Probus's reign, both along the Lake Constance-Basel as well as along the Rhine – Iller – Danube line ), in Egypt, and on the frontier with Persia.
Most importantly, Diocletian's tax system and administrative reforms lasted, with some modifications, until the advent of the Muslims in the 630s.
He was baptized and instructed in the city, and lived in Palestine in 296, when Diocletian's army passed through the region ( in the Life of Constantine, Eusebius recalls seeing Constantine traveling with the army ).
Since Diocletian's Tetrarchy ( 296 ), it was the major province of a diocese confusingly called Galliae (' the Gaul s '), to which further only the Helvetic, Belgian ( both also Celtic ) and German provinces belonged ; with the dioceses of Viennensis ( the southern provinces of Gaul ), Britanniae ( also Celtic ) and Hispaniae ( the whole Celtiberian peninsula ) this formed the praetorian prefecture also called Galliae, subordinate to the western emperor.
While no contemporary sources on his life are preserved, later sources and legends claim that he died during the Diocletianic Persecution, which ended with Diocletian's retirement in 305. Januarius is the patron saint of Naples, where the faithful gather three times a year in Naples Cathedral to witness the alleged liquefaction of what is claimed to be a sample of his blood kept in a sealed glass ampoule.
He served with distinction as a soldier under Emperors Aurelian and Probus, and in 293 at the establishment of the Tetrarchy, was designated Caesar along with Constantius Chlorus, receiving in marriage Diocletian's daughter Valeria ( later known as Galeria Valeria ), and at the same time being entrusted with the care of the Illyrian provinces.
Sheppard Frere wonders how Carausius was able to win support from the army when his command had been sea-based, and speculates that he had perhaps been involved in an unrecorded victory in Britain, connected with Diocletian's assumption of the title Britannicus Maximus in 285, and signs of destruction in Romano-British towns at this time.
Diocletian's Palace, which later became Split, was largely built with limestone that was quarried on Brač.
A Western Roman Empire existed intermittently in several periods between the 3rd and 5th centuries, after Diocletian's Tetrarchy and the reunifications associated with Constantine the Great and Julian the Apostate ( 324 – 363 ).
While no contemporary sources on his life are preserved, later sources and legends claim that he died during the Diocletianic Persecution, which ended with Diocletian's retirement in 305.
The authorities also constructed the city weather station and two " vidilice ", or " look-out points ", as resting places connected with a long stairway all the way to the Diocletian's Palace, the " Riva " promenade and the rest of the city center.
" As with Diocletian's Edict on Maximum Prices, shortages lead to black markets where prices for the same good exceed those of an uncontrolled market.
A transverse street leads to Diocletian's Camp, built by the Governor of Syria, Sosianus Hierocles, with the remains of the large central principia ( hall housing the legions ' standards ).
The Acta of the martyrdom of the bishop Fructuosus and his deacons Augurius and Eulogius document his legend ; they are the earliest Hispanic Acta, " marked by a realistic simplicity which contrasts very favourably with many of the Acta of Diocletian's persecution ".

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The Christian Arnobius, writing during Diocletian's reign, attributes financial concerns to provisioners of pagan services: The augurs, the dream interpreters, the soothsayers, the prophets, and the priestlings, ever vain ... fearing that their own arts be brought to nought, and that they may extort but scanty contributions from the devotees, now few and infrequent, cry aloud, ' The gods are neglected, and in the temples there is now a very thin attendance.

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Diocletian's elevation of Bassus as consul symbolized his rejection of Carinus ' government in Rome, his refusal to accept second-tier status to any other emperor, and his willingness to continue the long-standing collaboration between the Empire's senatorial and military aristocracies.
He probably participated in the Mesopotamian campaign of Carus in 283 and attended Diocletian's election as emperor on November 20, 284 at Nicomedia.
The Christian rhetor Lactantius suggested that Maximian shared Diocletian's basic attitudes but was less puritanical in his tastes, and took advantage of the sensual opportunities his position as emperor offered.
Since emperor Diocletian's Tetrarchy reform ( 293 ), the country was further divided in three provinces, as the small, easternmost region Sitifensis was split off from Mauretania Caesariensis.
Painting depicts two Christian women extracting arrows from St. Sebastian, who has been left for dead by the Roman emperor Diocletian's archers ( between 1851 and 1873 ).
Saint Sebastian ( died c. 288 ) was an early Christian saint and martyr, who is said to have been killed during the Roman emperor Diocletian's persecution of Christians.
Near the city emperor Diocletian, born in Salona, built the Diocletian's Palace ( around year 300 AD ), which is the largest and most important monument of late antique architecture in the World.
Diocletian's Palace (, ) is a building in Split, Croatia, that was built by the Roman emperor Diocletian at the turn of the fourth century AD.
* Both the notion of " partnership " in the form of a senior emperor and several junior co-emperors ( usually, but not necessarily, his sons ), and Diocletian's titulature, but mainly versed in Greek ( e. g. Sebastos for Augustus, a literal translation ), became quite common is the Eastern Roman Empire, i. e. Byzantium, which lasted a further millennium after the fall of the Western Empire.
Some church buildings were specifically built as church assemblies, such as that opposite the emperor Diocletian's palace in Nicomedia.

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Bureaucratic affairs were completed during Diocletian's stay: a census took place, and Alexandria, in punishment for its rebellion, lost the ability to mint independently.
The place name, formerly Saint-Vincent-en-Braisse, Latin Sanctus Vincentius in Brixia derives from that of St. Vincent born in Zaragoza, martyred at Valencia in 304 during Diocletian's persecutions.

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Diocletian's reign stabilized the Empire and marks the end of the Crisis of the Third Century.
Not all of Diocletian's plans were successful: the Edict on Maximum Prices ( 301 ), his attempt to curb inflation via price controls, was counterproductive and quickly ignored.
Although effective while he ruled, Diocletian's Tetrarchic system collapsed after his abdication under the competing dynastic claims of Maxentius and Constantine, sons of Maximian and Constantius respectively.
In spite of his failures, Diocletian's reforms fundamentally changed the structure of Roman imperial government and helped stabilize the Empire economically and militarily, enabling the Empire to remain essentially intact for another hundred years despite having seemed near the brink of collapse in Diocletian's youth.
Diocletian was not the only challenger to Carinus ' rule: the usurper M. Aurelius Julianus, Carinus ' corrector Venetiae, took control of northern Italy and Pannonia after Diocletian's accession.
It is possible that Flavius Constantius, the governor of Dalmatia and Diocletian's associate in the household guard, had already defected to Diocletian in the early spring.
Following Diocletian's victory, both the western and the eastern armies acclaimed him Augustus.
It has been surmised that the ceremonies were arranged to demonstrate Diocletian's continuing support for his faltering colleague.
In the spring of 293, in either Philippopolis ( Plovdiv, Bulgaria ) or Sirmium, Diocletian would do the same for Galerius, husband to Diocletian's daughter Valeria, and perhaps Diocletian's praetorian prefect.
In preparation for their future roles, Constantine and Maxentius were taken to Diocletian's court in Nicomedia.
Alexandria, whose defense was organized under Diocletian's former corrector Aurelius Achilleus, held out until a later date, probably March 298.
The next day, Diocletian's first " Edict against the Christians " was published.
Diocletian was demonized by his Christian successors: Lactantius intimated that Diocletian's ascendancy heralded the apocalypse, and in Serbian mythology, Diocletian is remembered as Dukljan, the adversary of God.
Maximian, according to these accounts, swore to uphold Diocletian's plan in a ceremony in the Temple of Jupiter.
Maximin appeared and took Diocletian's robes.

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