Gaius Valerius Pudens was a Roman

Roman Empire

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 politician and general of the late 2nd - early 3rd centuries.

Valerius Pudens, a native of Cuicul, now Djémila

Djemila

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, held command in Pannonia Inferior before becoming governor

Roman governors of Germania Inferior

This is a list of Roman governors of Germania Inferior . Capital and largest city of Germania Inferior was Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium , modern-day Cologne....

 of Germania Inferior

Germania Inferior

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. Around 202 or 203 he became governor of Roman Britain

Roman Britain

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, serving until c. 206.

An inscription at Bainbridge

Bainbridge, North Yorkshire

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 fort records new barracks being built under his governorship, possibly in connection with recent uprisings by the Brigantes

Brigantes

The Brigantes were a Celtic tribe who in pre-Roman times controlled the largest section of what would become Northern England, and a significant part of the Midlands. Their kingdom is sometimes called Brigantia, and it was centred in what was later known as Yorkshire...

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