Encyclopedia > Gallic Empire

  Article Content

Gallic Empire

The Gallic Empire is the modern name for the independent realm that lived a brief existence during the Crisis of the Third Century, from 259 to 274, formed of the break-away provinces of Gaul, Britain, and Spain. It is also known as the Gallo-Roman Empire.

Postumus set up the Empire's capital in Trier, in what is now the Rhineland-Palatinate of Germany.

Its emperors are known primarily from the coins they minted, and their names are as follows:

Postumus 259 - 268
Laelianus[?] 268
Marius[?] 268
Victorinus[?] 268 - 270
Tetricus I[?] 270 - 273
Tetricus II[?] 270 - 274



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz

... chair of philosophy at Halle for two years, he became, in 1833, professor at the university of Königsberg[?], where he remained till his death. In his last years he was ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 41.7 ms