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Gaius Iulius Verus Maximinus (c. AD 173 – 318), commonly known as Maximinus Thrax, was a Roman Emperor from AD 235 to 238. He was the first of the Illyrian emperors, and the only emperor to be of Thracian ethnicity. Maximinus Thrax was born in Thrace, a region in southeastern Europe that is now part of Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey.