{"id":48286,"date":"2019-03-12T21:50:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T20:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ciekawostka\/shortly-about-diocletian\/"},"modified":"2021-08-19T19:31:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T17:31:31","slug":"shortly-about-diocletian","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/shortly-about-diocletian\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortly about Diocletian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/dioklecjan\/\">Emperor Diocletian<\/a> came from a poor family from the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/salona\/\">Salona<\/a> area. He owes his position to hard work and military capabilities, thanks to which he quickly advanced to the highest levels of the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-army\/\">Roman army<\/a>. Among other things, he was the commander of Emperor Numerian&#8217;s bodyguard. Therefore, he enjoyed high trust. The emperor was proclaimed emperor in 284 CE.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/diocletian\/\">Diocletian<\/a> had many successes on the battlefields. He also carried out administrative reforms &#8211; for example, dividing the country into dioceses or changing the monetary system. He reformed the Roman army. This ruler, however, was particularly well-known for the tetrarchy system (he held power with three <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-empire\/roman-emperors\/\">emperors<\/a>: Maximian, Galerius and Constantius) and persecutions against Christians which began the destruction of the church in Nicomedia.<\/p>\n<p>He issued four edicts, the first of which (issued in 303) made it impossible for Christians to profess their faith. After his abdication from state <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-republic\/roman-offices\/\">offices<\/a>, he died in 313 CE. During his lifetime, he enjoyed divine reverence among his subjects, who universally believed he came from the very god <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/list-of-roman-gods\/jupiter\/\">Jupiter<\/a>. This shows his high position and authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36412,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[147],"class_list":["post-48286","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-people"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/48286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/48286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=48286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}