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 .”

Justinian showed much ambition, and it has been thought that he was functioning as virtual regent long before Justin made him associate Emperor on 1 April 527, although there is no conclusive evidence for this.

By degrees, however, Justinian came to understand that the formula at issue not only appeared orthodox, but might also serve as a conciliatory measure toward the Monophysites, and he made a vain attempt to do this in the religious conference with the followers of Severus of Antioch, in 533.

Justinian made the traffic more efficient by building a large granary on the island of Tenedos for storage and further transport to Constantinople.

* Emperor Justinian and His Attendants, mosaic on north wall of the apse, Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy, is made ( approximate date ).

Leontius is made emperor, and Justinian II is banished.

Emperor Justinian I ( 527 – 565 CE ) made homosexuals a scapegoat for problems such as " famines, earthquakes, and pestilences.

Justinian hoped that this would contribute to a reunion between the Chalcedonians and monophysites in the eastern provinces of the Empire ; various attempts at reconciliation between the monophysite and orthodox parties were made by many emperors over the four centuries following the Council of Ephesus, none of them succeeding, and some, attempts at reconciliation, such as this — the condemnation of the Three Chapters — causing further schisms and heresies to arise in the process, such as the aforementioned schism of the Three Chapters, and the heresies of monoenergism and monotheletism — the propositions, respectively, that Christ had only one function, operation, or energy ( purposefully formulated in an equivocal and vague manner, and promulgated between 610 and 622 by the Emperor Heraclius under the advisement of Patriarch Sergius I of Constantinople ) and that Christ only had one will ( promulgated in 638 by the same ).

Relying on the support of the Monothelite party, he made some pretensions to the throne on the outbreak of the first great rebellion against Emperor Justinian II ; these led to his relegation to Cephalonia by Tiberius Apsimarus, and subsequently to his banishment, by order of Justinian, to Cherson.

In 536, Justinian I made it the seat of the Quaestura exercitus ruled by a prefect of Scythia or quaestor Justinianus and including Lower Moesia, Scythia, Caria, the Aegean Islands and Cyprus ; later, the military camp outside Odessus was the seat of another senior Roman commander, magister militum per Thracias.

In the Paratitla, or summaries which he made of the Digest, and particularly of the Code of Justinian, he condensed into short axioms the elementary principles of law, and gave definitions remarkable for their admirable clearness and precision.

Justinian awarded Tervel with many gifts, the title of kaisar ( Caesar ), which made him second only to the emperor and the first foreign ruler in Byzantine history to receive such a title, and a territorial concession in northeastern Thrace, a region called Zagora.

After a short period of being reconquered by Roman Emperor Justinian I, it was conquered by the Lombards, who made it a duchy seat.

Therefore Sophia sought revenge, and a secret pact was made between the dowager empress and the general Justinian, whom Tiberius had replaced the year before.

In later years, the Via Egnatia was revived as a key road of the Byzantine Empire ; Procopius records repairs made by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I during the 6th century, though even then the dilapidated road was said to be virtually unusable during wet weather.

Besides the Lois Civiles, Domat made in Latin a selection of the most, common laws in the collections of Justinian I, under the title of Legum delectus ( Paris, 1700 ; Amsterdam, 1703 ); it was subsequently appended to the Lois civiles.

Gold coin made under the rule of Emperor Justinian II.

In 529, Justinian I made Samaritanism illegal, and arranged for a protective wall to be constructed around the church.

The law was then gradually modified in favour of the heir, until in the time of Justinian the heir who duly made an inventory of the property of the deceased was liable only for the assets to which he had succeeded.

According to Justinian, in the event of more serious crimes the decision was made by the praefectus urbi, “ if the offender is a person of such ruffianly and infamous character ... the case is sent on to the prefect of the city ”.

The Christian emperor Justinian ( 527 – 565 ) made those who would now be called " homosexuals " a scape goat for problems such as " famines, earthquakes, and pestilences.

He was a 6th-century traveller, who made several voyages to India during the reign of emperor Justinian.

The Christian emperor Justinian I ( 527 – 565 ) made homosexuals a scape goat for problems such as " famines, earthquakes, and pestilences.

When the Lombards applied to the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I for help against the Gepids, he sent an army under the command of Justinus and Justinianus, the sons of Germanus ; Aratius and Suartuas ( a former ruler of the Heruli ); and Amalafrid.

Justinian sent another general, Narses, to Italy, but tensions between Narses and Belisarius hampered the progress of the campaign.

Accompanying the general Belisarius in the wars of the Emperor Justinian I, he became the principal historian of the 6th century, writing the Wars of Justinian, the Buildings of Justinian and the celebrated Secret History.

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

The Byzantine emperor Justinian I erected a Christian church over the Cave of Machpelah in the 6th century CE, which was later destroyed by the Sassanid general Shahrbaraz in 614 when Khosrau II's armies besieged and took Jerusalem.

* Justinian ( general ) ( ca.

525 – 582 ), Byzantine general, nephew of Justinian I

* The Byzantines under general Justinian inflict a heavy defeat on Persian shah Khosrau I at Melitene.

On the other hand, the general setting appears to be what Clifford Huffman describes as " late-Imperial Christian Rome ," possibly during the reign of Justinian I ( 527 – 565 ).

Totila sent Pelagius to Constantinople in order to arrange a peace with Justinian I, but the emperor sent him back to say that his general Belisarius was in command in Italy.

In late 577, despite his complete lack of military experience, he was named as magister militum per Orientem, effectively commander-in-chief of the Byzantine army in the East, in the ongoing war against Sassanid Persia, succeeding the general Justinian.

Under Justinian in the 6th century, the eunuch Narses functioned as a successful general in a number of campaigns.

* Narses ( 478 – 573 ): general of Byzantine emperor Justinian I, responsible for destroying the Ostrogoths in 552 at the Battle of Taginae in Italy and saving Rome for the empire.

* Solomon: general and governor of Africa under Justinian I

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.

The following year Justinian sent his general Narses with a force of 35, 000 Lombards, Gepids and Heruli to Italy in a march around the Adriatic to approach Ravenna from the north.

Justinian was alarmed, but jealousy kept his one brilliantly competent general Belisarius at Constantinople.

* Justin ( general under Justinian I ) ( fl.

His greatest work is his Geschichte der byzantinischen Literatur von Justinian bis zum Ende des Ostroemischen Reiches ( History of Byzantine literature from Justinian to the fall of the Eastern Empire, 1453 ), a second edition of which was published in 1897, with the collaboration of Albert Ehrhard ( section on theology ) and Heinrich Gelzer ( general sketch of Byzantine history, AD 395-1453 ).

He was also the author of rhetorical exercises on philosophical themes ; of a Quadrivium ( arithmetic, music, geometry, astronomy ), valuable for the history of music and astronomy in the Middle Ages ; a general sketch of Aristotelian philosophy ; a paraphrase of the speeches and letters of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite ; poems, including an autobiography ; and a description of the square of the Augustaeum, and the column erected by Justinian in the church of Hagia Sophia to commemorate his victories over the Persians.

In the 4th century they were still described by Ammianus Marcellinus as the scourge of the neighbouring provinces of Asia Minor, with a major series of raids occurring from AD 404 to 409, including one campaign to eradicate them led by the Eastern Roman general Arbazacius, but they were said to have been effectually subdued in the reign of Justinian I.

Shifting his attention eastward, Tiberius sent his general Justinian with the eastern armies, and he pushed the Persians back across the Euphrates.