Gorakhpur
a division of the United provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India, with an area of about 10,000 square miles and a population of about 7,000,000.
Lying along the southern ern slopes of the Himalayas, it is mouncharacter and thickly covered by forests.
Cotton and rice are the chief productions. The city of Gorakhpur is the capital of the district; it is situated on the Rupti river, 100 miles N. E. of Benares. Pop. about 60,000.
GORDIANUS (i-ā'nus) I., MARCUS ANTONIUS, surnamed Africanus; Roman emperor; born about 158 A. D. He descended by the father's side from the famous family of the Gracchi. After being ædile, he t he twice filled the office of consul. He was then appointed proconsul of Africa. The tyranny and injustice of the Emperor Maximinus at length excited a rebellion in Africa, the authors of which proclaimed Gordianus emperor emperor, though he was then (238) in year. At the same time his son was conjoined with him in the exercise of imperial authority. The younger Gordianus, however, was defeated and slain in battle by Capellianus, viceroy of Mauritania, before Carthage, whereexistence (having been emperor for little upon his father put an end to his own more than a month) in 238.
TONIUS, Roman emperor, son and GORDIANUS II., MARCUS ANassociate of the preceding; born in son and GORDIANUS III. 192 A. D. He died near Carthage, Africa, in 238.
GORDIANUS III., MARCUS AN- TONIUS PIUS, Roman emperor, grandson of Gordianus I.; born about 224 A. D. He was raised to the dignity of Cæsar with Pupienus and Balbinus, who were also elected emperors in opposition to Maximinus; and, in the same year (238), after the three last named had fallen by the hands of their own soldiers, Gordianus was elevated by the Prætorian bands to the rank of Augustus. Assisted by his father-in-law, Misitheus, whom he made prefect of the Prætorians, Gordianus marched in 242 into Asia against the Persians, who under Shahpûr (Sapor) had taken possession of Mesopotamia and had advanced into Syria. He relieved Antioch, which was threatened by them; drove back the Persians beyond the Euphrates; and was just about to march into their country when Misitheus died. Philip the Arabian, who succeeded Misitheus, stirred up the soldiery to assassinate the emperor in 244.