# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carus
# Generated: 2026-09-01T12:43:02.031Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carus"
name: "Carus"
slug: "carus"
description: "Roman emperor who ruled for barely a year, died under mysterious circumstances during a Persian campaign — officially by lightning strike, though no one quite believed it — and left the throne to two sons who kept the empire steady just long enough."
tagline: "Roman emperor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Caro_-_dritto_aureo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "222"
deathDate: "283"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.503600913402424
  historical:           22.707292
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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  - name: "Journalist"
    slug: "journalist"
  - name: "Politics"
    slug: "politics"
  - name: "Ancient History"
    slug: "ancient-history"
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    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q187004"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Carus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Кар (римски император)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Carus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carus"
    title: "Carus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carus"
    title: "Carus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carus_(Kaiser)"
    title: "Carus (Kaiser)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://diq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carus"
    title: "Carus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Κάρος"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Carus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carus"
    title: "Carus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caro"
    title: "Caro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carus"
    title: "Carus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kar_(car)"
    title: "Kar (car)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carus_r%C3%B3mai_cs%C3%A1sz%C3%A1r"
    title: "Carus római császár"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Karo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karo"
    title: "Karo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Marcus Aurelius Carus became Roman emperor in 282, already around sixty years old. He spent his short reign beating back Germanic tribes and Sarmatians along the Danube with enough success to stabilize a frontier that had bled Rome for decades. Then he turned east to face the Sassanid Persians. Somewhere in Mesopotamia, in the summer of 283, he died. The official story was lightning. Few accepted it — the whispers pointed to murder, poison, something human. His sons Carinus and Numerian inherited the purple together, and their brief dynasty, however fragile, gave the empire a stretch of order it badly needed.