In a long and often bloody and tumultuous history of the Roman Empire, there are few periods like what has become known among scholars as the Crisis of the Third Century. In a fifty year period, from the assassination of Emperor Severus Alexander by his own troops in 235AD to the ascension of Emperor Diocletian in 284AD, some fifty Emperors proclaimed either by the legions or by the Senate attempted to rule the Empire.
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