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By placeRoman EmpireFebruary 11—Emperor Gordian III is killed by his Praetorian Prefect Philip the Arab after Philip replaces Timesitheus and then declares himself co-emperor.
Philip the Arab becomes Emperor.
Rome loses Armenia to the Sassanides.
Philip the Arab constructs the city of Shahba, in Syria, the province of his birth.
By topicedit]Arts and sciencesPlotinus
http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotinus founds his Neoplatonist
http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoplatonist school in Rome.
244–249 – Philip the Arab, is made. It is now kept at Musei Vaticani, Braccio Nuovo, Rome.
244–245 – House-synagogue, Dura-Europos, Syria, is built. It is reconstructed in the National Museum of Damascus, Damascus, Syria.