Byzantium: The Early Centuries

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Belisarius

Flavius Belisarius (c. 505 – 565) was a general of the Byzantine Empire. He was instrumental to Emperor Justinians ambitious project of reconquering much of the Mediterranean territory of the former Western Roman Empire, which had been lost less tha...
Justinian I (byzantine Emperor)

Justinian I (c.482 - 565) was a Byzantine (East Roman) emperor from 527 to 565. During his reign, Justinian sought to revive the empires greatness and reconquer the lost western half of the historical Roman Empire.more...
Constantine The Great

Constantine was a Roman Emperor from 306 to 337 AD of Thracian-Illyrian ancestry. He was the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity.Constantine I[h] (27 February c. 272 – 22 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was Roman emperor from AD ...
Attila The Hun

Emperor of the Huns, which was a Turkic Empire, from 434 until his death in 453. He was leader of the Hunnic Empire which stretched from Germany to the Ural River and from the River Danube to the Baltic Sea. During his rule, he was one of the most fearsom...
Charlemagne

King of the Franks who united a large part of Europe during the early Middle Ages and laid the foundations for modern France, Germany and the Low Countries. He took the Frankish throne in 768 and became King of Italy in 774. From 800, he became the first ...