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AD 122
Hadrian's Wall started
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Hadrian, who succeeds his close friend Trajan as emperor on his death
in AD 117, likes to think of himself as a cultured scholar as much as
a military leader. But his 20-year rule is remembered most for his consolidation
of the empire within the natural borders delineated by Augustus –
the rivers Rhine, Danube and Euphrates. So he draws the Roman legions
back from Armenia and Mesopotamia and builds the 80-mile-long Hadrian's
Wall to separate the 'barbarians' from areas of Roman occupation in Britain.
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