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era was not the only one used by early Christians. Western Christians were aware of it but did not use it. Most Roman Christians, like the pagan Romans before them, designated their years by naming the two
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1. Regarded as a civil rather than a religious era, it began on the first day of the Alexandrian year, 29 August 5493
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eras, became the dominant method of numbering years in the East until modern times, such as in the
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era. His main goal was to marginalize the memory of a tyrant who persecuted Christians. The
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Calendar era used by the Church of Alexandria and the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria
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at the beginning of the 5th century, placed the epoch of his world era on 25 March 5492
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from the 5th century until the present. This era was used to number the year in
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era became dominant in the Latin West but was not used in the
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Diocletian began his reign on 20 November 284 AD, and the
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BC. This Alexandrian era was the preferred era used by
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