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Procopius records that after about five years, Abraha deposed the viceroy and made himself king ( Histories 1. 20 ).
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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.
His name is the most common in all historic records of Slavic religion ; in fact, he is the first Slavic god mentioned in written history ( Procopius in his short note mentions that the god of thunder and lightning is the only god of Slavs, lord of all ).
Procopius records that Abraha was once the slave of a Roman merchant at Adulis, while al-Tabari says that he was related to the Axumite royal family.
" It provides a description of the land and people of Late Roman Africa, which conscientiously records the impressions of an intelligent native observer ; many of his statements as to manners and customs are confirmed both by independent ancient authorities ( such as Procopius ) and by our knowledge of the modern Berbers.
Procopius and after
Dengizich is believed to have been king ( khan ) of the Kutrigur Bulgars, and Ernakh king ( khan ) of the Utigur Bulgars, whilst Procopius claimed that Kutrigurs and Utigurs were named after, and led by two of the sons of Ernakh.
Even after he steadied his resolve to fight, Valens's efforts to forestall Procopius were hampered by the fact that most of his troops had already crossed the Cilician gates into Syria when he learned of the revolt.
According to Procopius, the Heruli, after having raided the European continent for several generations, returned to Scandinavia in 512 AD as a result of military defeats.
Procopius, on the other hand, states that Belisarius appointed Vigilius shortly after Silverius was deposed.
When Belisarius eventually returned to Italy, Procopius relates that " during a space of five years he did not succeed once in setting foot on any part of the land ... except where some fortress was, but during this whole period he kept sailing about visiting one port after another.
Although Gerontius committed suicide in Hispania, and Athaulf the Visigoth later suppressed the revolt of Jovinus, Roman rule never returned to Britain after the death of Constantine III: as the historian Procopius later explained, " from that time onwards it remained under rule of tyrants.
In the 6th century, the Byzantine historian Procopius ( d. after 562 ) saw Attila and the Huns as the nation locked out by Alexander, and a little later other Christian writers identified them with the Saracens.
Empress Ariadne asked to Anastasius, whom she had married after Zeno's death, to appoint Procopius praetorian prefect ; Anastasius refused, saying that the office required more learning that Procopius had.
Soon after ( circa 529 ) he was raised by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I ( r. 527 – 565 ), in the words of the historian Procopius, " to the dignity of king ", becoming the overall commander of all the Empire's Arab allies ( foederati ) in the East with the title of patrikios (, " patrician and phylarch of the Saracens ").
This lasted at least till the days of the scholar Procopius, more than a century after the demise of the Western Roman Empire, who wrote describing the former Rhine army as still in operation with ' legions ' of the style of their forefathers during Roman times.
Had such a preëminent historian as Procopius modeled his work after Polybius rather than Thucydides, Byzantine histories may have followed a natural continuity in style and method with the Hellenic era.
Procopius and about
Apart from his own writings, the main source for Procopius ' life is an entry in the Suda, a 10th century Byzantine encyclopedia that tells nothing about his early life.
Ludmila, Wenceslas, Procopius, Cyril and Methodius, and Adalbert ), although numerous legends about Bohemian saints were also written by foreign authors.
It is believed that Procopius is really talking about a part of Scandinavia, since several tribes are easily identified, including the Geats ( Gautoi ) in present-day Sweden and the Saami ( Scrithiphini ).
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Ancient Chinese chroniclers, as well as Procopius, wrote various theories about the origins of the people:
Like Procopius, contemporary Chinese chroniclers had different theories about the origins of the Uar and the Hephthalites:
An article by art historian Noah Charney about the Vatican Library and its famous manuscript, Historia Arcana by Procopius.
In 1898, the orphanage moved to Lisle, about west of Chicago, to be joined by St. Procopius three years later.
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Procopius reports that Kaleb ( whom he calls Hellesthaeus ) with the help of Justin, the Roman Emperor, collected a fleet and crossed from Africa to Yemen, where he defeated Dhū Nuwas about the year 520 or 525 ( 1. 20 ).
Writers taking this line relied heavily on the scandalous behavior of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and the bad emperors reported by Tacitus and other writers and later by the secret history of Procopius, who hated his royal employers to such a degree that he could not contain himself about their real methods and way of life any longer.
The primary sources for Frankish military custom and armament are Ammianus Marcellinus, Agathias, and Procopius, the latter two Eastern Roman historians writing about Frankish intervention in the Gothic War.
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Procopius and five
This work in five books, On the Reign of Justinian, continues the history of Procopius, whose style it imitates, and is the chief authority for the period 552-558.
Procopius and years
The date of his birth is unclear ; John Malalas claims that at his death he was 82 years old, hence born in 449, but Procopius mentions that he had barely entered puberty when his father Peroz was killed with his entire army during a campaign against the Hephthalites in 484 at the Battle of Herat.
According to the accounts of Priscus, Procopius, John Malalas, Theodorus Lector, Evagrius Scholasticus, Theophanes the Confessor, Joannes Zonaras and Cedrinus, Placidia can be estimated to have stayed a prisoner in Carthage for six to seven years.
Procopius and Abraha
Procopius notes that Abraha later submitted to Kaleb's successor, as supported by the former's inscription in 543 stating Aksum before the territories directly under his control.
According to Procopius ( Histories 1. 20 ), ' Abraha seized the control of Yemen from Esimiphaeus ( Sumuafa ' Ashawa '), the Christian Himyarite viceroy appointed by Kaléb, with the support of dissident elements within the Aksum occupation force who were eager to settle in the Yemen, then a rich and fertile land.
Procopius states that Kaleb made several unsuccessful attempts to recover his overseas territory ; however, his successor later negotiated a peace with Abraha, where Abraha acknowledged the Axumite king's authority and paid tribute.
Procopius and deposed
Byzantine accounts of the episode ( Joshua the Stylite and Procopius ) mention that Kavadh was deposed because of his determination to spread a new " religion " that preached redistribution of property.
Procopius and viceroy
Kaleb then appointed his Christian South Arabian follower Sumuafa ' Ashawa ' ( named Esimphaios by Procopius ), to rule Yemen as his viceroy.
After much fighting, Kaleb's soldiers eventually routed Yusuf's forces and killed the king, allowing Kaleb to appoint Sumuafa ' Ashawa ', a native Christian ( named Esimphaios by Procopius ), as his viceroy of Himyar.
Procopius and made
Though Jovian made accommodations to appease this potential claimant, Procopius fell increasingly under suspicion in the first year of Valens ' reign.
The March of Moravia was divided between his cousins Jobst and Procopius, and his uncle Wenceslaus I was made Duke of Luxembourg.
Byzantine historian Procopius stated that two Christian monks eventually uncovered the way of how silk was made.
Records of this era are made by Procopius, Jordanes and others.
The first authoritative reference to the Slavs and their mythology in written history was made by the 6th century Byzantine historian Procopius, whose Bellum Gothicum described the beliefs of a South Slavic tribe that crossed the Danube heading south in just two days.
Thus we can trace the development of the legend from a letter, but no image in Eusebius, to an image painted by a court painter in Addai ; then to a miracle caused by the letter in Procopius, which becomes a miracle caused by a miraculously-created image supernaturally made when Jesus pressed a cloth to his wet face in Evagrius.
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