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Roman emperor from AD 98 to 117

For the namesake typeface, see Trajan (typeface).

"Marcus Ulpius Trajanus" and "Traianus" redirect here.

Roman emperor trajan achievements latham

For the emperor's father, see Marcus Ulpius Traianus (father of Trajan). For other uses, see Traian (disambiguation).

Trajan (TRAY-jən; born Marcus Ulpius Traianus, 18 September 53 – c. 9 August 117) was a Roman emperor from AD 98 to 117, remembered as the second of the Five Good Emperors of the Nerva–Antonine dynasty.

He was a philanthropic ruler and a successful soldier-emperor who presided over one of the greatest military expansions in Roman history, during which, by the time of his death, the Roman Empire reached its maximum territorial extent.

He was given the title of Optimus ('the best') by the Roman Senate.

Trajan was born in the municipium of Italica in the present-day Andalusian province of Seville in southern Spain, an Italic settlement in Hispania Baetica; his gens Ulpia cam