Linked from

The 20 pages that link to Trajan, each with the reason it gives.

• Roman EmpireRelated: His reign marks the high point of Roman imperial expansion.

• Roman SenateRelated: His correspondence with Pliny shows the Senate’s place in imperial governance.

• SuetoniusRelated: Suetonius’s adult career began under Trajan’s rule.

• HadrianRelated: Hadrian succeeded Trajan and reversed the policy of holding some of Trajan's eastern conquests.

• Pliny the YoungerRelated: Pliny addressed the emperor directly for rulings on provincial disputes and policy.

• Roman emperorRelated: His conquests illustrate the reach of imperial command at its height.

• Trajan's ColumnRelated: The monument commemorates victories achieved during his reign.

• Christianity in the Roman EmpireRelated: His response illustrates the empire's case-by-case approach to Christian prosecutions.

• Roman HispaniaRelated: His origin demonstrates that provincial elites could reach the imperial throne.

• NabataeansRelated: His annexation ended the Nabataean kingdom as an independent state.

• Roman–Parthian relationsRelated: His invasion reached Ctesiphon but could not secure lasting Roman rule in the east.

• BithyniaRelated: His instructions to Pliny reveal how the empire supervised Bithynia’s cities and finances.

• HispaniaRelated: His origins show that provincial Hispania could produce an emperor.

• Apollodorus of DamascusRelated: Trajan commissioned the projects most closely associated with Apollodorus.

• BurebistaRelated: His conquest ended the independent Dacian kingdom that emerged after Burebista’s era.

• Trajan's BridgeRelated: He ordered the bridge as part of preparations for war across the Danube.

• Trajan's Dacian WarsRelated: He made the conquest of Dacia a central objective of his reign.