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4 unusual facts about Caracalla


Ferrari 125 S

Fourteen days later, the 125 S claimed Ferrari's first victory at the Grand Prix of Rome on Caracalla, where it was also driven by Cortese.

Lucius Valerius Messalla Apollinaris

He apparently did not suffer any repercussions following the purge that saw his father put to death on the orders of the emperor Caracalla in AD 212, and in fact he was appointed consul prior in AD 214, alongside Gaius Octavius Appius Suetrius Sabinus.

Names of Istanbul

It was conferred to it by the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus (193–211) in honour of his son Antoninus, the later Emperor Caracalla.

Qasr al Hallabat

Originally a Roman fortress constructed under Emperor Caracalla to protect its inhabitants from Bedouin tribes, this site dates to the second and third century AD, although there is trace evidence of Nabatean presence at the site.


Charles Semblat

At Epsom in June he won both the Epsom Derby with Galcador and the Oaks with the filly Asmena (a sister of Marsyas, Caracalla and Arbar).

Cohors I Aelia Dacorum

Frere argues that these awards were made by the emperor Caracalla (M. Aurelius Severus Antoninus, r. 211-17), in order to secure the British regiments' loyalty after the assassination of his brother and co-emperor Geta, who enjoyed wide popularity in the army.

Fulvia Plautilla

Her mother was named Hortensia; her father was Gaius Fulvius Plautianus; the Commander of the Praetorian Guard, consul, maternal first cousin and close ally to Roman Emperor Lucius Septimius Severus (the father of Caracalla).

Juventinus Albius Ovidius

German philologist Gottfried Bernhardy attempted to prove from Spartianus that this and other trifles of a similar description were composed by the contemporaries of the emperor Geta, the son of Septimius Severus and the brother of Caracalla.

Macrinus

They used their hereditary influence over the cult of sun-deity Elagabalus (the Latinised form of El-Gabal) to proclaim Soaemias' son Elagabalus (named for his family's patron deity) as the true successor to Caracalla.

Milecastle 17

A stone found near the milecastle is the only known written record of the name of Gaius Julius Marcus, a Roman Governor of Britain whose name has been erased from other inscriptions possibly because he fell out of favour with Emperor Caracalla.

Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Many writers have written about this Parisian district in prose such as Boris Vian, Gabriel Matzneff (see La Nation française), Jean-Paul Caracalla or in Japanese poetry in the case of Nicolas Grenier.

Serenus Sammonicus

he was a famous physician and polymath, who was put to death with other friends of Geta in December 212, at a banquet to which he had been invited by Caracalla shortly after the assassination of his brother.

Severan dynasty

He was succeeded by his sons Caracalla and Geta, who reigned under the influence of their mother, Julia Domna.

Upon his father's death, Caracalla was proclaimed co-emperor with his brother Geta.


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