Editing Maximinus Daza (section)

==Civil war==
In 308, after the elevation of [[Licinius]] to ''Augustus'', Maximinus and [[Constantine I]] were declared ''filii Augustorum'' ("sons of the Augusti"), but Maximinus probably started styling himself as ''Augustus'' with support of his troops during a campaign against the [[Sassanid Empire|Sassanids]] in 310. On the death of Galerius in 311, Maximinus divided the Eastern Empire between Licinius and himself. When Licinius and [[Constantine I]] began to make common cause, Maximinus entered into a secret alliance with the usurper [[Maxentius]], who controlled Italy. He came to an open rupture with Licinius in 313; he summoned an army of 70,000 men but sustained a crushing defeat at the [[Battle of Tzirallum]] in the neighbourhood of [[Heraclea Perinthus]] on 30 April. He fled, first to [[Nicomedia]] and afterwards to [[Tarsus in Cilicia|Tarsus]], where he died the following August.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}