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Diocletian's reign stabilized the empire and ended the Crisis of the Third Century. He initiated the process of the Roman Empire split and appointed fellow officer Maximian as Augustus, co-emperor, in 286. Diocletian reigned in the Eastern Empire, and Maximian reigned in the Western Empire.
The Tetrarchy was the system instituted by Roman emperor Diocletian in 293 AD to govern the ancient Roman Empire by dividing it between two emperors, the augusti, and their junior colleagues and designated successors, the caesares.
Diocletian divided the Roman Empire when, in 286, he elevated Maximian to the rank of Augustus (emperor) and gave him control of the Western Empire, while he continued to rule the East. [28] [29] [30] In 293, Galerius and Constantius Chlorus were appointed as their subordinate , as a way to avoid the civil unrest that had marked the 3rd century.
270–275) stabilised the empire militarily and Diocletian reorganised and restored much of it in 285. [38] Diocletian's reign brought the empire's most concerted effort against the perceived threat of Christianity, the "Great Persecution". [39] Diocletian divided the empire into four regions, each ruled by a separate tetrarch. [40]
When Diocletian became Roman Emperor in 284, the military situation had recently stabilized, [5] which allowed him to enact badly needed constitutional reforms. Diocletian resurrected the system that Marcus Aurelius had first used, and divided the empire into east and west. [6] Each half was to be ruled by one of two co-emperors, called the ...
The Crisis of the Third Century, also known as the Military Anarchy [1] or the Imperial Crisis, was a period in Roman history during which the Roman Empire nearly collapsed under the combined pressure of repeated foreign invasions, civil wars and economic disintegration. At the height of the crisis, the Roman state split into three distinct and ...
In the 290s, Diocletian divided the empire anew into almost a hundred provinces, including Roman Italy. [1] Their governors were hierarchically ranked, from the proconsuls of Africa Proconsularis and Asia through those governed by consulares and correctores to the praesides .
Roman emperor Diocletian, who framed the constitution of the Tetrarchy. Under Diocletian's new constitution, power was shared between two emperors called Augusti.The establishment of two co-equal Augusti marked a rebirth of the old republican principle of collegiality, as all laws, decrees, and appointments that came from one of the Augusti, were to be recognized as coming from both conjointly.