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Daily Roman History:

On the shortlist for greatest Emperor, certainly the one who did the most with his time, is Lucius Domitas Aurelianus. Coming to the throne in 270CE after the sudden death of his predecessor Claudius Gothicus to the Plague of Cyprian (technically he took power from Claudius' brother who only rules for a few months). Being a military man Aurelian wasted no time continuing the campaigns on the previous years, heading to Italy to fight and defeat armies of the Vandels, Juthngi, and Sarmatians, expelling them from Roman territory. He also used this time to secure the safety of the capital city, he ordered the building of the Aurelian walls, often working existing structure into it to speed up. Perhaps his greatest feat was rejoining the Empire which had split into the Gallic Empire in the west, and Palmyrene Empire to the east. Soundly defeating these two rival Empires and making the Empire whole again for the first in over a decade, he was granted the auspicious title Restitutor Orbis ("Restorer of the World"). All this was done in just 5 short years. Unfortunately he had acquired a reputation as a ruthless disciplinarian, and fearing retribution of an invented failure he was assassinated by some of his officers in 275CE, on the eve of invading the nearby Sassanid Empire.

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