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Valens was a Roman emperor (364–378).
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The 4th century was the time period which lasted from 301 to 400. In the West, the early part of the century was shaped by Constantine the Great, who became the first Roman emperor to adopt Christianity. Gaining sole reign of the empire, he is also noted for re-establishing a single imperial capital, choosing the site of ancient Byzantium in 330 to build the city soon called Nova Roma ; it was later renamed Constantinople in his honor.
Year 366 (CCCLXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Gratianus and Dagalaifus. The denomination 366 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Procopius was a Roman usurper against Valens, and a member of the Constantinian dynasty.
Ingenuus was a Roman military commander, the imperial legate in Pannonia, who became a usurper to the throne of the emperor Gallienus when he led a brief and unsuccessful revolt in the year 260. Appointed by Gallienus himself, Ingenuus served him well by repulsing a Sarmatian invasion and securing the Pannonian border, at least temporarily. Ingenuus had also been charged with the military education of Caesar Cornelius Licinius Valerianus, the young son of Emperor Gallienus, but after the boy's death in 258, his position became perilous.
Maximus is the Latin term for "greatest" or "largest". In this connection it may refer to:
Valens is one of the Thirty Tyrants, a list of Roman usurpers compiled by the author(s) of the Historia Augusta.
Valens Thessalonicus was a Roman usurper against Roman Emperor Gallienus.
The Council of Ariminum, also known after the city's modern name as the Council of Rimini, was an early Christian church synod.
The Gallienus usurpers were the usurpers who claimed imperial power during the reign of Gallienus. The existence of usurpers during the Crisis of the Third Century was very common, and the high number of usurpers fought by Gallienus is due to his long rule; 15 years was a long reign by the standards of the 3rd century Roman Empire.
The Valentinianicdynasty or Valentinian dynasty, produced five Roman emperors during Late Antiquity, reigning over the Roman Empire from 364 to 392 and from 424 to 455. The dynasty's patriarch was Gratian the Elder, whose sons Valentinian I and Valens were both made Roman emperor in 364. Valentinian's two sons both became emperors, while his daughter married Theodosius the Great, producing a daughter that became an empress and whose son also became emperor. The dynasty of Valentinian succeeded the Constantinian dynasty and ruled concurrently with members of the Theodosian dynasty. Because of their family origins in the Roman province of Pannonia Secunda, the Hungarian historian Andreas Alföldi dubbed the dynasty the Pannonian emperors.
Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi was a Roman usurper, whose existence is questionable, being based only on the unreliable Historia Augusta.
The Battle of Thyatira was fought in 366 at Thyatira, Lydia, between the army of the Roman Emperor Valens and the army of the usurper Procopius, led by his general Gomoarius.
The Battle of Mursa was fought on 28 September 351 between the eastern Roman armies led by the Emperor Constantius II and the western forces supporting the usurper Magnentius. It took place at Mursa, near the Via Militaris in the province of Pannonia. The battle, one of the bloodiest in Roman history, was a pyrrhic victory for Constantius.
Magnus Decentius was a usurper of the western portion of the Roman Empire against emperor Constantius II. Decentius was the brother of Magnentius, who had revolted against Constantius on 18 January 350.
Marcellinus was a Roman Empire officer under Roman Emperor Constans and usurper Magnentius.
Serenianus was an officer of the Roman Empire, involved in the death of Caesar Constantius Gallus and in the usurpation of Procopius.
Marcellus was an officer of the Roman Empire, supporter of usurper Procopius and usurper himself for a short time.
Byzantium under the Constantinian and Valentinianic dynasties was the earliest period of the Byzantine history that saw a shift in government from Rome in the west to Constantinople in the East within the Roman Empire under emperor Constantine the Great and his successors. Constantinople, formally named Nova Roma, was founded in the city of Byzantium, which is the origin of the historiographical name for the Eastern Empire, which self-identified simply as the "Roman Empire".
Valens of Mursa was bishop of Mursa and a supporter of Homoian theology, which is often labelled as a form of Arianism, although semi-Arianism is probably more accurate.