Politician

Maximinus Thrax

Roman emperor from 235 to 238

173 - 238

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Maximinus Thrax

His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2024). Maximinus Thrax is the 737th most popular politician (up from 1,030th in 2024), the 8th most popular biography from Bulgaria (up from 11th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Bulgarian Politician.

Maximinus Thrax was a Roman Emperor from 235 to 238. He is most famous for being the first emperor to be born outside of Italy, and for his persecution of Christians in the empire.

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Maximinus Thrax ranks #8 among 520 people in Pantheon born in Bulgaria, inside the top 2% of that group.

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Maximinus Thrax climbed 919 places in Pantheon's global HPI ranking, from #3,377 to #2,458.

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Maximinus Thrax's biography appears in 70 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 96% of all Politicians.

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Among Politicians

Among politicians, Maximinus Thrax ranks 737 out of 20,022. Before him are Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Nebuchadnezzar I, Al-Ma'mun, Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator, Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden, and Tigranes the Great. After him are Yesugei, Ptolemy III Euergetes, Taejong of Joseon, Ion Antonescu, Béla IV of Hungary, and Nursultan Nazarbayev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 173, Maximinus Thrax ranks 1. Among people deceased in 238, Maximinus Thrax ranks 1. After him are Gordian I, Gordian II, Balbinus, Pupienus, Gaius Julius Verus Maximus, and Julius Pollux.