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Probus
Probus
c. 232 CE–c. 282 CE · Sremska Mitrovica
Probus (reigned 276-282 CE) was a soldier-emperor of the Crisis of the Third Century, born at Sirmium (modern Sremska Mitrovica) in Pannonia around 232. He campaigned successfully to restore the Rhine and Danube frontiers and to suppress usurpers across the empire. He was killed by his own troops in a military mutiny at Sirmium in 282.
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Sremska Mitrovica
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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Probus’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Graeco-Roman world
- Tacitus· 200 CE–276 CE
- Plotinus· 204 CE–270 CE
- Diophantus Alexandrinus· 210 CE–290 CE
- Dexippus· 210 CE–273 CE
- Quintillus· 212 CE–270 CE
- Aurelian· 214 CE–275 CE
- Claudius Gothicus· 214 CE–270 CE
- Gallienus· 218 CE–268 CE
- Tryphiodorus· 220 CE–280 CE
- Carus· 222 CE–283 CE
- Gordian III· 225 CE–244 CE
- Herennius Etruscus· 227 CE–251 CE
- Volusianus· 230 CE–253 CE
- Hostilian· 230 CE–251 CE
- Florianus· 232 CE–276 CE
- Porphyrius· 234 CE–305 CE
- Iamblichus· 242 CE–325 CE
- Diocletian· 244 CE–311 CE
- Carinus· 250 CE–285 CE
- Menander Rhetor· 250 CE–290 CE
- Constantius Chlorus· 250 CE–306 CE
- Maximian· 250 CE–310 CE
- Numerian· 253 CE–284 CE
- Severus II· –307 CE
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