[permalink] [id link]
Galerius crosses the Euphrates into Syria to join Diocletian at Antioch.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
Galerius and Euphrates
Galerius continued moving down the Tigris, and took the Persian capital Ctesiphon before returning to Roman territory along the Euphrates.
Galerius crossed the Euphrates into Syria to join his father-in-law Diocletian at Antioch.
Galerius and into
Narseh moved south into Roman Mesopotamia in 297, where he inflicted a severe defeat on Galerius in the region between Carrhae ( Harran, Turkey ) and Callinicum ( Ar-Raqqah, Syria ) ( and thus, the historian Fergus Millar notes, probably somewhere on the Balikh River ).
According to Lactantius, Diocletian and Galerius entered into an argument over imperial policy towards Christians while wintering at Nicomedia in 302.
* The mausoleum of Galerius in Salonica ( Greece ) is converted into a church.
When the Roman Empire was divided into the tetrarchy, Thessaloniki became the administrative capital of one of the four portions of the Empire under Galerius Maximianus Caesar, where Galerius commissioned an imperial palace, a new hippodrome, a triumphal arch and a mausoleum among others.
Narseh then moved south into Roman Mesopotamia, where he inflicted a severe defeat on Galerius, then commander of the Eastern forces, in the region between Carrhae ( Harran, Turkey ) and Callinicum ( Ar-Raqqah, Syria ).
Then on the death of Galerius, in May 311, Licinius entered into an agreement with Maximinus Daia, to share the eastern provinces between them.
When Constantius died in 306, his son Constantine was crowned emperor on July 25 and subsequently accepted by Galerius into the tetrarchy as Caesar.
According to Lactantius, Diocletian and Galerius entered into an argument over what imperial policy towards Christians should be while at Nicomedia in 302.
Galerius and Syria
Galerius was assigned Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and responsibility for the eastern borderlands.
* Galerius makes preparations in Syria for a campaign against the Persian king Narseh.
In 305, his maternal uncle Galerius became the eastern Augustus and adopted Maximinus, raising him to the rank of caesar ( in effect, the junior eastern Emperor ), with the government of Syria and Egypt.
Galerius and Diocletian
A further massive transfer of Bastarnae was carried out by emperor Diocletian ( ruled 284-305 ) after he and his colleague Galerius defeated a coalition of Bastarnae and Carpi in 299.
Diocletian delegated further on 1 March 293, appointing Galerius and Constantius as Caesars, junior co-emperors.
Galerius, aided by Diocletian, campaigned successfully against Sassanid Persia, the Empire's traditional enemy.
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.
Galerius and Constantius would become Augusti after Diocletian and Maximian's departure.
Diocletian spent the spring of 293 traveling with Galerius from Sirmium ( Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia ) to Byzantium ( Istanbul, Turkey ).
Afterwards, during 299 and 302, as Diocletian was then residing in the East, it was Galerius ' turn to campaign victoriously on the Danube.
In a public ceremony at Antioch, the official version of events was clear: Galerius was responsible for the defeat ; Diocletian was not.
Diocletian publicly humiliated Galerius, forcing him to walk for a mile at the head of the Imperial caravan, still clad in the purple robes of the Emperor.
Diocletian and Galerius ' magister memoriae ( secretary ) Sicorius Probus were sent to Narseh to present terms.
At the conclusion of the peace, Diocletian and Galerius returned to Syrian Antioch.
Diocletian was conservative in matters of religion, a man faithful to the traditional Roman pantheon and understanding of demands for religious purification, but Eusebius, Lactantius and Constantine state that it was Galerius, not Diocletian, who was the prime supporter of the purge, and its greatest beneficiary.
Galerius, even more devoted and passionate than Diocletian, saw political advantage in the politics of persecution.
Diocletian believed that Romanus of Caesarea was arrogant, and he left the city for Nicomedia in the winter, accompanied by Galerius.
Diocletian argued that forbidding Christians from the bureaucracy and military would be sufficient to appease the gods, but Galerius pushed for extermination.
Galerius convinced Diocletian that the culprits were Christians, conspirators who had plotted with the eunuchs of the palace.
Galerius assumed the consular fasces in 308 with Diocletian as his colleague.
In the autumn of 308, Galerius again conferred with Diocletian at Carnuntum ( Petronell-Carnuntum, Austria ).
Diocletian and Maximian were both present on 11 November 308, to see Galerius appoint Licinius to be Augustus in place of Severus, who had died at the hands of Maxentius.
Compendium extract: Diocletian to the Death of Galerius: 284 – 311
Afterward, the persecutions under Diocletian and Galerius directed his attention to the martyrs of his own time and the past, and this led him to the history of the whole Church and finally to the history of the world, which, to him, was only a preparation for ecclesiastical history.
The point of the work is to describe the deaths of the persecutors of Christians: Nero, Domitian, Decius, Valerian, Aurelian, and the contemporaries of Lactantius himself, Diocletian, Maximian, Galerius, and Maximinus.
* 293 – Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy.
Galerius and at
* Marcus Galerius Aurelius Antoninus ( died before 138 ); his sepulchral inscription has been found at the Mausoleum of Hadrian in Rome.
Detail of Galerius attacking Narseh on the Arch and Tomb of Galerius # Arch of Galerius | Arch of Galerius at Thessaloniki, Greece, the city where Galerius carried out most of his administrative actions
In 308 Galerius, together with the retired emperor Diocletian and the supposedly retired Maximian, called an imperial " conference " at Carnuntum on the River Danube.
On September 13, 258, he was imprisoned at the behest of the new proconsul, Galerius Maximus.
Diocletian, the eastern Augustus, in order to keep the balance of power in the imperium elevated Galerius as his Caesar, possibly on May 21, 293 at Philippopolis.
Constantine, disappointed in his hopes to become a Caesar, fled the court of Galerius after Constantius had asked Galerius to release his son as Constantius was ill. Constantine joined his father's court at the coast of Gaul, just as he was preparing to campaign in Britain.
Diocletian may or may not have been present at the battle, but would present himself soon afterwards at Antioch, where the official version of events was made clear: Galerius was to take all the blame for the affair.
The message conveyed was clear: the loss at Carrhae was not due to the failings of the empire's soldiers, but due to the failings of their commander, and Galerius ' failures would not be accepted.
It is also possible that Galerius ' position at the head of the caravan was merely the conventional organization of an imperial progression, designed to show a Caesar's deference to his Augustus.
Eventually, on the eve of his clash with Licinius, he accepted Galerius ' edict ; after being defeated by Licinius, shortly before his death at Tarsus, he eventually issued an edict of tolerance on his own, granting Christians the rights of assembling, of building churches, and the restoration of their confiscated properties.
Maxentius refrained from using the titles Augustus or Caesar at first and styled himself princeps invictus ( Undefeated Prince ), in the hope of obtaining recognition of his reign by the senior emperor Galerius.
Constantine firmly controlled his father's army and territories, and Galerius could pretend that his accession was part of the regular succession in the tetrarchy, but neither was the case with Maxentius: he would be the fifth emperor, and he had only few troops at his command.
In the third fought at Callinicum, Galerius suffered a complete defeat and was forced to retreat.
0.290 seconds.