Some, including the Byzantine chronicler Theophanes, have claimed that Konon's family had been resettled in Thrace, where he entered the service of Emperor Justinian II, when the latter was advancing on Constantinople with an army of 15, 000 horsemen provided by Tervel of Bulgaria in 705.

Carrying a bag of gold given to him by Justinian, the slightly built eunuch entered the Hippodrome alone and unarmed, against a murderous mob that had already killed hundreds.

Formulated in the legislation of the emperor Justinian I ( 527 – 565 ), especially in his Novella 131, the theory received formal ecclesiastical sanction at the Council in Trullo ( 692 ), which ranked the five sees as Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem.

Yet " Justinian I succeeded in imposing his ecclesiastical policies on the papacy and Pope Gregory the Great maintained an attitude of political loyalty to the empire ."< ref > T.

When the proposed government of universal Christendom by five patriarchal sees ( Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem, known as the pentarchy ), under the auspices of a single universal empire, was formulated in the legislation of Emperor Justinian I ( 527-565 ), especially in his Novella 131, and received formal ecclesiastical sanction at the Council in Trullo ( 692 ), the name " patriarch " became the official one for the Bishops of these sees, and the title " Exarch " remained the proper style of the metropolitans who ruled over the three remaining ( political ) dioceses of Diocletian's division of the Eastern Prefecture, namely the Exarchs of Asia ( at Ephesus ), of Cappadocia and Pontus ( at Caesarea ), and of Thrace ( at Heraclea Sintica ).

A letter from Justinian II assured John V that a " synod of high-ranking civil and ecclesiastical officials ", including the apocrisiarius and the Byzantine military, had read and thereafter sealed the text of the Third Council of Constantinople, to prevent any alteration to its canons.

" A century after the Council of Chalcedon ( 451 ) and the ensuing schism between those who accepted it and those who rejected it, the theory of the Pentarchy was given expression: " formulated in the legislation of the emperor Justinian I ( 527 – 565 ), especially in his Novella 131, the theory received formal ecclesiastical sanction at the Council in Trullo ( 692 ), which ranked the five sees as Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem.

Such Emperors as Basiliscus, Zeno, Justinian I, Heraclius, and Constans II published several strictly ecclesiastical edicts either on their own without the mediation of church councils, or they exercised their own political influence on the councils to issue the edicts.

At a much earlier date Justinian ( in his Sixth Novel ) had recognized them as the work of the Apostles and confirmed them as ecclesiastical law.

However, the eastern hankering after the eremitical life long survived, and it was only by dint of legislation, both ecclesiastical ( council of Chalcedon ) and civil ( Justinian Code ), that the Basilian cenobitic form of monasticism came to prevail throughout the Greek-speaking lands, though the eremitical forms have always maintained themselves.

The first Council classified ( in the East, but not in the West, which did not participate in it ) as ecumenical that mentioned together all five sees of the pentarchy in the order indicated by Justinian I is the Council in Trullo of 692, which was called by Justinian II: " Renewing the enactments by the 150 Fathers assembled at the God-protected and imperial city, and those of the 630 who met at Chalcedon ; we decree that the see of Constantinople shall have equal privileges with the see of Old Rome, and shall be highly regarded in ecclesiastical matters as that is, and shall be second after it.

* July – Vitalian, Byzantine general, becomes consul and is shortly later murdered, probably on the orders of Justinian.

However, shortly after Constantine's return to Rome, Justinian was killed by mutinous troops, in November 711.

Agents of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian abducted Nathan shortly after his birth, and he was eventually rescued by Arn.

In particular the so-called Plague of Justinian had ravaged the region and conflict remained endemic, with the Three-Chapter Controversy sparking religious opposition and administration at a standstill after the able governor of the peninsula, Narses, was recalled.

The regnal year of the emperor was also used to identify years, especially in the Byzantine Empire after 537 when Justinian required its use.

It has been estimated that before Justinian I's reconquests the state had an annual revenue of 5, 000, 000 solidi in AD 530, but after his reconquests, the annual revenue was increased to 6, 000, 000 solidi in AD 550.

Roman law as preserved in the codes of Justinian and in the Basilica remained the basis of legal practice in Greece and in the courts of the Eastern Orthodox Church even after the fall of the Byzantine Empire and the conquest by the Turks, and also formed the basis for much of the Fetha Negest, which remained in force in Ethiopia until 1931.

* Justinian I re-consecrates Hagia Sophia after its dome is rebuilt.

* 15 February – The restored Byzantine emperor Justinian II presides over the public humiliation of his predecessors Leontius and Tiberius III and their chief associates in the Hippodrome of Constantinople, after which they are executed.

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.

In the spring of 544 the Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I sent his general Belisarius to Italy to counterattack, but Totila, captured Rome in 546 from Belisarius and depopulated the city after a yearlong siege.

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

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.

Chosroes, in a peace treaty concluded with Justinian c. 533 stipulated that the philosophers should be allowed to return without risk and to practise their rites, after which they returned.

It was, however, ruinous when Julian collected his troops there before marching to his defeat and death in Mesopotamia, and Khosrau I held it to ransom after the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I had failed to put it in a state of defence.

Nothing is known about the life of Stephanus, except that he was a grammarian at Constantinople, and lived after the time of Arcadius and Honorius, and before that of Justinian II.

Named after the 6th century Corpus Juris Civilis of Emperor Justinian I of the Byzantine Empire, the first codification of Roman law and civil law.

Seven months after his appointment Justinian died.

Kotor ( then called " Cattaro ") has been fortified since the early Middle Ages, when Emperor Justinian built a fortress above Acruvium in 535, after expelling the Ostrogoths ; a second town probably grew up on the heights round it, for Constantine Porphyrogenitus, in the 10th century, alludes to Lower Kotor.

Emperor Justinian did so, until the riots had been suppressed, after which he reinstated John as prefect and Tribonian as quaestor.

Solidus of Justinian II, second reign, after 705

The type of Justinian II was revived after the end of Iconoclasm, and with variations remained the norm until the end of the Empire.

A century later, the Byzantine emperor Justinian I sent a force under his general Belisarius, which, contrary to contemporary expectations, succeeded in destroying the Vandal kingdom ; Byzantine rule lasted one and a half century more, increasingly contested by the Berbers and, after the 640s AD, by the coming of the Arabs, who finally secure control over the entire region by 700.

Solidus of Justinian II after 705, Christ ( left ) is on the obverse, the emperor on the reverse

Relying upon the accounts of the historian Procopius, it often has been said that Justinian ruled the Empire in his uncle's name during the reign of Justin, however, there is much evidence to the contrary.

Soon after his accession in 518, Justinian appointed a commission to collect and codify existing Roman law.

When Emperor Anastasius died in 518, Justin was proclaimed the new Emperor, with significant help from Justinian.

During Justin's reign ( 518 – 527 ), Justinian was the Emperor's close confidant.

After Scupi was almost completely destroyed by an earthquake in 518 AD, Justinian, according to his historian Procopius in " De Aedificiis " ( On the Buildings ), built a new city near his birthplace Tauresium and Bederiana ( believed to be today's villages Taor and Bader ) at the fertile entry point of the River Lepenec into the Vardar, making Skopje the city of Justiniana Prima.

# A History of the Reign of Justin I ( 518 – 527 ) and the early years of Justinian, completely lost.

* Justinian Dynasty ( 518 – 602 )

* Justinian Dynasty ( 518 – 602 )

This category covers the Justinian Dynasty that ruled the Eastern Roman Empire from 518 to 602, as well events, documents, and people associated with it.

Germanus was born before 505, the nephew of Emperor Justin I ( r. 518 – 527 ) and thus cousin of Emperor Justinian I ( r. 527 – 565 ), and not his nephew, as is often erroneously stated.

This structure was replaced with a sturdier stone one in 518 ; this new site was patronized by important political figures including Roman Emperor Justinian I, King Khosrau II of Sassanid Persia, and Al-Mundhir, ruler of the Ghassanids.

The Justinian Dynasty is a family who ruled over the Byzantine Empire from 518 to 602.