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Emperor Diocletian, who created a tetrarchy to more effectively govern the Roman world. It consisted of two senior emperors (augustii) and two junior emperors (caesars), with the western capital based in Rome and the eastern capital in what would be Constantinople.

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The Roman Empire was divided on different occasions. Originally, it was divided by Diocletian in 293 AD. It was reunited, and redivided. Finally, when Emperor Theodosius I died in 395 AD, it was divided for the last time before what is called the fall of the West Roman Empire.

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No emperor ever divided the Roman empire into eastern and western parts. Diocletian created the tetrarchy (rule by four) which had two senior emperors and two junior emperors. Each was in charge of one of the four main administrative units he subdivided the empire into: the praetorian prefectures. Two of them were in the east and two of them were in the west. Prior to Diocletian some emperors had created co-emperorship with their sons with one of them in charge in the east and one of them in charge in the east.Similar two-men co-emperorships also occurred after Diocletian. However, no one formally divided the empire into two parts.

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Emperor Diocletian, in 285 CE.

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