Usurpers

See also * Gallienus usurpers for all the usurpers of Valerian and Gallienus' reigns.

At other mosques, the Mail found that there had been alarming rhetoric, with Jewish people called 'filth' and 'usurpers' since the October 7 massacre.

As Emperor Claudius took several steps to legitimize his rule against potential usurpers, most of them emphasizing his place within the Julio-Claudian family.

He believed that poets in the measure of their gifts and personality were the repositories of the genuine spiritual life of their race and the priests were usurpers.

In the following years, however, the Empire had to face a huge pressure from external enemies, while, at the same time, dangerous civil wars threatened the empire from within, with usurpers weakening the strength of the state.

Many nobles were, in actuality, really usurpers, being commoners, who moved into another part of the country and falsely pretended to noble status.

Smith makes no mention of Shetra or Dondrup acting as usurpers and despots in this period.

The Babylonian king Nabonassar overthrew the Chaldean usurpers in 748 BC, and successfully stabilised Babylonia, remaining untroubled by Ashur-nirari V of Assyria.

The later biographies and the biographies of subordinate emperors and usurpers are a tissue of lies and fiction, but the earlier biographies, derived primarily from now-lost earlier sources ( Marius Maximus or Ignotus), are much more accurate.