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Also known as: Flavius Claudius Julianus, Julian the Apostate, Julianus Apostata
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Byname:
Julian the Apostate
Latin:
Julianus Apostata
Original name:
Flavius Claudius Julianus
Born:
ad 331/332, Constantinople
Died:
June 26/27, 363, Ctesiphon, Mesopotamia
Title / Office:
emperor (361-363), Roman Empire
Role In:
Battle of Ctesiphon
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Julian (born ad 331/332, Constantinople—died June 26/27, 363, Ctesiphon, Mesopotamia) was a Roman emperor from ad 361 to 363, nephew of Constantine the Great, and a noted scholar and military leader who was proclaimed emperor by his troops. A persistent enemy of Christianity, he publicly announced his conversion to paganism in 361, thus acquiring the epithet “the Apostate.” Julian was a younger son of Julius Constantius, the half brother of Constantine I (the Great), and his second wife, Basilina. In 337, when Julian was five, his cousin (the third son of Constantine I), also called Constantius, became emperor in the ...(100 of 1449 words)

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