Trajan
['treidʒən]
Definition
(noun.) Roman Emperor and adoptive son of Nerva; extended the Roman Empire to the east and conducted an extensive program of building (53-117).
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Examples
- Trajan also invaded Parthia and annexed Armenia, Assyria, and Mesopotamia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We have marked the utmost eastward extension of the Roman Empire under Trajan (see map to chap. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He abandoned these new eastern conquests of Trajan's, and he also abandoned North Britain. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Apollodorus, architect of the Emperor Trajan, speaks of leathern bags with pipes attached. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Nerva (96 A.D.) was the first of this line, and Trajan (98 A.D.) the second. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Under Trajan there was a Roman province of Arabia, which included the then fertile region of the Hauran and extended as far as Petra. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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