The Severan Dynasty: The Black Roman Emperors who ruled Britain

The Severan Dynasty: The Black Roman Emperors who ruled Britain

Did you know there was a time a black emperors ruled over the British Isle? That is well before Africa was colonised by the Europeans? Maybe you know, but if you are like many Black Africans still suffering from induced inferiority complex, it is very likely you haven't encountered this information. This is among many heroic acts of Blacks that have been either been hidden,'whited out' or whitewashed, in order to perpetuate the notion of White supremacy.
The Biafran is bringing to you today. Not that a Black African ruled over Britain, he also ruled over half of the world under the Roman Empire.

Lucius Septimius Severus, born 11 April 145 and died 4 February 211), was the first Black African-born Roman emperor. However, before Severus ascended the throne, there had been other Roman-born black Emperors of Rome. He rule the empire from 193 to 211. Severus was born in Leptis Magna in the present day Libya. It has to be noted at this point that before the arrival and occupation of the northern part of Africa (including Egypt) by the present mixed Arab, Persian and Greek blood, the region was home to the Muurs (Black/brown-skinned people).

Severus seized the reins of power after the death of Emperor Pertinax in 193 during the Year of the Five Emperors. After deposing and killing the incumbent emperor Didius Julianus, Severus fought and defeated his rival claimants, consolidating his rule over the western provinces. He further expanded the eastern frontier of the empire down to the Tigris and fortified the Limes Arabicus in Arabia Petraea. Late in his reign he travelled to Britain, strengthening the Hadrian's Wall and reoccupying the Antonine Wall. In 208 he invaded Caledonia (modern Scotland), but his ambitions were cut short when he fell fatally ill in late 210. Severus died in early 211 at Eboracum (today York, England) and was succeeded by his sons Caracalla and Geta, thus founding the Severan dynasty, the last dynasty of the Roman empire before the Crisis of the Third Century.

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