![]() ![]() He proclaimed as augusti (co-emperors) his elder son Caracalla in 198 and his younger son Geta in 209, both born of his second wife Julia Domna. In 202, he campaigned in Africa and Mauretania against the Garamantes, capturing their capital Garama and expanding the Limes Tripolitanus along the southern desert frontier of the empire. He then enlarged and fortified the Limes Arabicus in Arabia Petraea. Following the consolidation of his rule over the western provinces, Severus waged another brief, more successful war in the east against the Parthian Empire, sacking their capital Ctesiphon in 197 and expanding the eastern frontier to the Tigris. Severus defeated Albinus three years later at the Battle of Lugdunum in Gaul. ![]() Later that year Severus waged a short punitive campaign beyond the eastern frontier, annexing the Kingdom of Osroene as a new province. Niger was defeated in 194 at the Battle of Issus in Cilicia. Severus seized power after the death of the emperor Pertinax in 193 during the Year of the Five Emperors.Īfter deposing and killing the incumbent emperor Didius Julianus, Severus fought his rival claimants, the Roman generals Pescennius Niger and Clodius Albinus. As a young man he advanced through the customary succession of offices under the reigns of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus. He was born in Leptis Magna (present-day Al-Khums, Libya) in the Roman province of Africa. ![]() Lucius Septimius Severus ( Latin: 11 April 145 – 4 February 211) was Roman emperor from 193 to 211. ![]()
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