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Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus (), Roman Emperor () was the second of the so-called "five good emperors" of the Roman Empire and one of its greatest ever. Under his rule, the empire reached its greatest territorial extent.

Trajan was the son of M. Ulpius Traianus, a prominent senator and general from a famous Roman family. The family had settled in the province of Baetica in Spain sometime toward the end of the Second Punic War, and Trajan himself was just one of many well-known Ulpii in a line that continued long after his own death.

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He was born on September 18, 53, in the city of Italica. When he became emperor 45 years later, he thus became the first Roman Emperor not born in Italy. As a young man, he rose through the ranks of the Roman army[?], serving in some of the most contentious parts of the empire's frontier, along the Rhine river.

He took part in the emperor Domitian's wars against the Germanic peoples, and was known as one of the foremost military commander