Inside over the first door I saw one of these, which shows Constantine offering the city to the Virgin Mary and Justinian offering the temple.

* 527 – Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne.

* 527 – Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.

Conscious of her unpopularity she banished, and afterwards put to death, three Gothic nobles whom she suspected of intriguing against her rule, and at the same time opened negotiations with the emperor Justinian I with the view of removing herself and the Gothic treasure to Constantinople.

Anthemius of Tralles ( c. 474 – before 558 ; ) was a Greek professor of Geometry in Constantinople ( present-day Istanbul in Turkey ) and architect, who collaborated with Isidore of Miletus to build the church of Hagia Sophia by the order of Justinian I. Anthemius came from an educated family, one of five sons of Stephanus of Tralles, a physician.

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* 529 – First draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis ( a fundamental work in jurisprudence ) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.

This story survived in the works of Hesychius of Miletus, who in all probability lived in the time of Justinian I.

The city was sacked by the Samaritans in 529, but rebuilt by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I. Bethlehem was conquered by the Arab Caliphate of ' Umar ibn al-Khattāb in 637, who guaranteed safety for the city's religious shrines.

During the Samaritan revolt of 529, Bethlehem was sacked and its walls and the Church of the Nativity destroyed, but they were rebuilt on the orders of the Emperor Justinian I.

The region was then ruled by the Ostrogoths up to 535, when Justinian I added the territory to the Byzantine Empire.

The emperor Justinian I ( 527 – 565 ) was known for his successes in war, for his legal reforms and for his public works.

Graves set much of the novel in the Constantinople of Justinian I.

A 1581 reprint of the Digestorum from Justinian I | Justinian's Corpus Juris Civilis ( 527 – 534 ).

Under Justinian I, reigning in the 6th century, parts of Italy were for a few decades ( re ) conquered from the Ostrogoths: thus, this famous mosaic, featuring the Byzantine emperor in the center, can be admired at Ravenna.

* 532 – Byzantine Emperor Justinian I orders the building of a new Orthodox Christian basilica in Constantinople – the Hagia Sophia.

* 527: Justinian I is crowned emperor of Byzantium.

The laws ( novellae ) of the Emperor Justinian I ( r. 527 – 565 ) treat Hesychast and anchorite as synonyms, making them interchangeable terms.

Isidore of Miletus was one of the two main Byzantine Greek architects ( Anthemius of Tralles was the other ) that Emperor Justinian I commissioned to design the church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople from 532-537A. D.

Isidore of Miletus was a renowned scientist and mathematician before Emperor Justinian I hired him, “ Isidorus taught stereometry and physics at the universities, first of Alexandria then of Constantinople, and wrote a commentary on an older treatise on vaulting .” Emperor Justinian I appointed his architects to rebuild the Hagia Sophia following his victory over protesters within the capital city of his Roman Empire, Constantinople.

Emperor Justinian I ensured that his new structure would not be burned down, like its predecessors, by commissioning architects that would build the church mainly out of stone, rather than wood, “ He compacted it of baked brick and mortar, and in many places bound it together with iron, but made no use of wood, so that the church should no longer prove combustible .”

* April 7 – Emperor Justinian I issues the Codex Justinianus ( Code of Civil Laws ), reformulating Roman law in an effort to control his unruly people ( see 532 ).

The church of Hagia Sophia was built by Justinian I in the middle of the city in the 6th century ( modelled after the larger Hagia Sophia in Constantinople ), and it was there that the Second Council of Nicaea met in 787 to discuss the issues of iconography.

* Philippicus incites a revolt against Justinian II, and upon the latter's death declares himself Byzantine Emperor.

Then, having been recalled by Justinian, Belisarius returned to Constantinople, taking the captured Vitigis and his wife Matasuntha with him.

The reigning Byzantine emperor Leontios bribes the khagan to surrender Justinian, but the latter is warned by his wife and flees to the Bulgar Khanate, securing the assistance of the Bulgarian ruler Tervel ( autumn ).

* Theodora ( 6th century ) ( c. 500 – June 28, 548 ), wife of Emperor Justinian I of the Byzantine Empire

For example the title was applied to the Byzantine empress Theodora, who had started life as an erotic actress but later became the wife of the Emperor Justinian and, after her death, an Orthodox saint.

Empress Theodora, wife of 6th-century Byzantine emperor Justinian is reported by several ancient sources to have started in life as a courtesan and actress who performed in acts inspired from mythological themes and in which she disrobed " as far as the laws of the day allowed ".

Justinian renamed her Theodora, after the wife of Justinian I.

Warned by his wife, Justinian strangled Papatzys and Balgatzin with his own hands.

He may have self-consciously modelled himself on his namesake, Justinian I, as seen in his enthusiasm for large-scale construction projects and the renaming of his Khazar wife with the name of Theodora.

By his first wife Eudokia, Justinian II had at least one daughter:

By his second wife, Theodora of Khazaria, Justinian II had a son:

Justinian, in despair, considered fleeing, but his wife Theodora is said to have dissuaded him, saying, " Those who have worn the crown should never survive its loss.

Evagrius is much less critical of the Emperor Justinian and his wife Theodora, in comparison with Procopius, who described the two as physically manifest demons.

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It portrays the reign of the Roman Emperor Justinian I to the great disadvantage of the Emperor, his wife and some of his court.

* Theodora ( wife of Justinian I ), 6th century Byzantine ( Eastern Roman ) empress, wife of Justinian I, considered a saint by the Greek Orthodox Church

* Theodora of Khazaria, 7th century Byzantine ( Eastern Roman ) empress, wife of Justinian II

* Eudokia ( wife of Justinian II ), wife of Byzantine Emperor Justinian II