Tiberius III

Tiberius III

Tiberius III (Greek: Τιβέριος, romanized: Tibérios), born Apsimar (Latin: Apsimarus; Greek: Αψίμαρος, romanized: Apsímaros), was Byzantine emperor from 698 to 705 AD. Little is known about his early life, other than that he was droungarios, a mid-level commander, of the Cibyrrhaeots, and that his birth name was Apsimar. In 696, Tiberius was part of an army sent by Byzantine Emperor Leontius to retake the city of Carthage in the Exarchate of Africa, which had been captured by the Arab Umayyads. After seizing the city, this army was pushed back by Umayyad reinforcements and retreated to the island of Crete; some of the officers, fearing the wrath of Leontius, killed their commander, and declared Tiberius emperor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tiberius III has received more than 111,797 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Tiberius III is the 3,147th most popular politician (down from 2,057th in 2019), the 345th most popular biography from Turkey (down from 267th in 2019) and the 184th most popular Turkish Politician.

Tiberius III was most famous for being the last Western Roman Emperor.