biography
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Jovian
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in full Flavius Claudius Jovianus
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pronunciation:
[johvian]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.331–64)
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| biography:
| Roman emperor (363–4), appointed by the army in Mesopotamia on Julian's death in battle. He was immediately forced to make a humiliating peace with Shapur II, ceding great tracts of Roman territory to Sassanian Persia, and agreeing to pay a subsidy. |
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