Did you know that 18 Roman emperors, one fifth of all Roman emperors, were born on the territory of today’s Republic of #Serbia?
This is the largest number of emperors born in some province out of #Italy.
One of them will be remembered as the greatest adversary to Christianity, and the other proclaimed it the official religion.
What they have in common is that they were both born in what is today Serbia.
Men in question are caesar and augustus Galerius, born in #Gamzigrad, town near #Zaječar in east of Serbia, and another ruler, born in #Niš, city in south of Serbia – emperor Constantine I, called Constantine The Great. Besides them, many other emperors were born on the territory of today’s Serbia: Constantius Chlorus, Licinius, Vetranion, Trajan Decius, Aurelian, Probus, Maximillian Hercules, Constantius II, Gratian, Jovian, Hostilian, Maximinus Daia, Constantius III, Claudius II Gothicus, Flavius Valerius Severus and Justinian.
On the territory of Serbia we have imperial city (Sirmium), provincial capitals (Sirmium and Viminacium), imperial residences and villas (Felix Romuliana, Šarkamen, Mediana and Iustiniana Prima), combined with fortified frontier with many cities, legionary and auxiliary forts (Singidunum, Diana, Pontes, Naissus).
These sites represent enormous heritage from antiquity.
All previously mentioned makes Serbia one of the central points in Roman Empire for centuries.
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