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Claudius II
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Claudius II (c. AD 214–270)

Roman emperor from 268. He had a distinguished military career and was made governor of the province of Illyricum, east of the Adriatic, under the emperor Valerian. He was proclaimed emperor by the army on the death of the emperor Gallienus.

Claudius defeated the Alamanni (Germans) in the north of Italy 268, and was given the surname, ‘Gothicus’, when he won a great victory over the Goths (from southern Sweden) near Naissus, in the Roman province of Moesia. He died at Sirmium in Pannonia.



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