• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPM
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      1 month ago

      Yes, this is about ~230 years after that. The Year of the Four Emperors was a year in which four emperors reigned in sequence - Galba was overthrown by Otho, who was overthrown by Vitellius, who was overthrown by Vespasian. Think of the Year of the Four Emperors like a year-long civil war, or a series of coups.

      The Tetrarchy was a formalized system wherein four emperors would rule simultanously, each delegated a specific area of the Empire to rule over.