History

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Flevum (Velsen?)

Flevum: Roman naval base among the Frisians, probably identical to Velsen in the Netherlands.Velsen-1 Velsen I (design Graham Sumner) Like Fectio/Vechten, Velsen…

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Florian

Florianus: emperor of the Roman world (r. 276). Florian Names: full name and date of birth unknown 275: appointed praetorian prefect when his brother,…

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P. Annius Florus

Publius Annius Florus (c.70? - c.140?): Roman author, published a brief work on the history of the Roman empire during the reign of the emperor Hadrian (r.117-138). …

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Florus on Eunus

The most important source for the career of the Syrian slave leader Eunus is that of Publius Annius Florus, the author of an epitome of the History of Rome since its foundation of the great Roman historian Titus Livy (59…

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Florus on Spartacus

Publius Annius Florus (c.70? - c.140?): Roman author, published a brief work on the history of the Roman empire during the reign of the emperor Hadrian (117-138).Spartacus was the leader of an army of runaway slaves that shook Italy in…

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Florus on the Germanic Wars

Publius Annius Florus (c.70? - c.140?): Roman author, published a brief work on the history of the Roman empire during the reign of the emperor Hadrian (117-138).The Roman author Publius Annius Florus published his Epitome of Titus Livy in the…

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Four Achaemenid Empire Lists

Behistun inscription §6 These are the countries which are subject unto me, and by the favor of Ahuramazda I became king of them: Persia, Elam, Babylonia, Assyria, Arabia, Egypt, the countries by the Sea, Lydia, the Greeks, Media, Armenia, Cappadocia, Parthia,…

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Four letters of Bar Kochba

Simon ben Kosiba, surnamed Simon bar Kochba ("son of the star") was a Jewish Messiah. Between 132 and 135, he was the leader of the last resistance against the Romans. After the end of the disastrous rebellion, the rabbis called…

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Fourth Syrian War (219-217)

Syrian Wars: series of conflicts between the Seleucid and Ptolemaic empires in the third and second centuries BCE; at stake was an area called Coele Syria, which is more or less identical to modern Israel, the Palestine territories, Lebanon, and…

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