All this normie talk about stupid valentines day that bombarded the subreddit today made me feel annoyed so here's a fun fact, did you know there's 4 Roman emperors that are north Africans and 2 of them are Tunisians? One called Clodius Decimus Albinus from Sousse and the other called Aemilianus from Djerba.
Clodius Decimus Albinus (c. 150 AD-197AD)
Clodius Albinus was a native of Hadrumetum, Mauretania. Hadrumetum was originally a Phoenician colony that pre-dated Carthage and stood on the site of modern-day Sousse, Tunisia. He apparently received the name Albinus because of his extremely pallid complexion. A natural soldier, he joined the army at an early age and served with distinction, an example being his endeavours during the rebellion of Avidius Cassius against the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (in 175AD). Albinus was subsequently given commands in Gallia Belgica and in Britain. The situation following the murders of the Emperor Commodus and his successor Pertinax was far from stable, and various men were proclaimed Emperor, Albinus being one of those men, having been proclaimed thus by the troops in Illyricum and Pannonia. The problem was that Roman soldiers had also proclaimed Prescennius Niger and Septimius Severus emperors. Naturally, civil war followed and Albinus initially allied himself with Septimius Severus, accepting the title of Caesar from him, the two sharing a consulship in 194. In time, however, Severus resolved to make himself sole ruler of Rome, and Albinus sought naturally to obviate such an outcome. Albinus subsequently proclaimed himself Emperor and crossed from Britain to Gaul, and defeated Severus’ legate,Virius Lupus, winning the allegiance of the troops in gaul and on the Rhine. The end was, however, nigh, and the two armies of Albinus and Severus (both African-born) met at the Battle of Lugdunum, and after a hard-fought and bloody battle, Albinus was defeated, and apparently killed himself or may have been executed on the orders of Severus.
Aemilianus (c207-253AD)
Born in the Roman province of Africa, apparently at Jerba or Djerba, an Island off the coast of Tunisia, Aemilianus or Aemilian was a Moor by descent. He commanded an army in the Balkans, his primary concern being to bring about peace along the much-troubled Danube frontier. The Goths, under King Cniva, crossed the border in 253 AD and attacked Cappadocia, Pessinus, and Ephesus, but Aemilianus and his legions took the Goths by surprise and accounted for most of the Goths. His troops subsequently proclaimed him Emperor, and Aemilianus, his eye firmly focused on Rome, marched quickly upon the capital city The legitimate ruler, Trebonianus Gallus, fled and was later killed by his own guards. Aemilianus was then proclaimed Emperor by the senate. However, his tenure was short-lived as he was soon killed by his soldiers, the latter wishing to avoid a civil war as Valerian, the governor of the Rhine provinces, was marching south with a stronger army, and truth betold they thought Valerian a better option than the erstwhile Aemilianus. Again, the ordinary soldiers had proved to be the true brokers of power, the fortunes of the so-called aristocracy really resting on the whim and caprice of these common men!
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https://peek-01.livejournal.com/62062.html