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The growth of Christianity from its obscure origin c. 40 AD, with fewer than 1,000 followers, to being the majority religion of the entire Roman Empire by AD 400, has been examined through a wide variety of historiographical approaches. Until the last decades of the 20th century, the primary theory was provided by Edward Gibbon in The History ...
List of Roman emperors. The Prima Porta statue of Augustus ( r. 27 BC – AD 14), the first Roman emperor. The Roman emperors were the rulers of the Roman Empire from the granting of the name and title Augustus to Octavian by the Roman Senate in 27 BC onward. [ 1] Augustus maintained a facade of Republican rule, rejecting monarchical titles but ...
Indo-Roman relations. Roman maritime trade in India and Scythia according to the Periplus Maris Erythraei, 1st century CE. The first documented relations between Ancient India and Ancient Rome occurred during the reign of Augustus (27 BCE – 14 CE), the first Roman Emperor . The presence of Europeans, including Romans, in the region known at ...
The 1947 Mirpur massacre and the 1947–1948 Rajouri massacre of Hindus and Sikhs in the Jammu division of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, began in November 1947, some months after the Partition of India. The Rajouri Massacre ended in early 1948, when Indian troops retook the town of Rajouri .
t. e. A map outlining historical sites in Pakistan. The history of Pakistan precedes the country's creation in 1947. [ 1] Although, Pakistan was created in 1947 as a whole new country by the British [ 2] through partition of India, but the history of the land extends much further back and is intertwined with that of Afghanistan, India, and Iran.
Persecution of Christians. Greek Christians in 1922, fleeing from their homes in Kharput and moving to Trebizond. In the 1910s and 1920s, the Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian genocides were perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire and its successor state, the Republic of Turkey. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Part of a series on.
Constantine the Great and Christianity. Constantine's vision and the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in a 9th-century Byzantine manuscript. During the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great (306–337 AD), Christianity began to transition to the dominant religion of the Roman Empire. Historians remain uncertain about Constantine's ...
Portrait of the emperor Antoninus Pius (reigned 138–161 AD) in ritual attire as an Arval Brother. Roman religio (religion) was an everyday and vital affair, a cornerstone of the mos maiorum, Roman tradition and ancestral custom. It was ultimately governed by the Roman state, and religious laws.