mar 26, 284 BC - Rome split the empire into two

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By 285 CE the Roman Empire had grown so vast that it was no longer feasible to govern all the provinces from the central seat of Rome. The Emperor Diocletian divided the empire into halves with the Eastern Empire governed out of Byzantium and the Western Empire governed from Rome.

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ByReid Dubois

29 May 2019

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Date:

mar 26, 284 BC

Now

~ 2311 years ago