At last these disorders took the form of a major rebellion of 532, known as the " Nika " riots ( from the battle-cry of " Victory!

* Nika riots

* Greens, a political faction and associated chariot-racing team in the Byzantine empire ; involved in the deadly Nika riots of 532

* 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople.

* 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail.

Justinian's rule was not universally popular ; early in his reign he almost lost his throne during the Nika riots, and a conspiracy against the Emperor's life by dissatisfied businessmen was discovered as late as 562.

In January 532, partisans of the chariot racing factions in Constantinople, normally divided among themselves, united against Justinian in a revolt that has become known as the Nika riots.

Justinian also rebuilt the Church of Hagia Sophia ( which cost 20, 000 pounds of gold ), the original site having been destroyed during the Nika riots.

Most notably, he had the Hagia Sophia, originally a basilica style church that had been burnt down during the Nika riots, splendidly rebuilt according to a completely different ground plan, under the architectural supervision of Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles.

Procopius witnessed the Nika riots of January, 532, which Belisarius and his fellow general Mundo repressed with a massacre in the Hippodrome.

* 532: Nika riots in Constantinople ; the cathedral is destroyed.

* Some members of the Blue and Green chariot racing factions in Constantinople are imprisoned for murder, precipitating the Nika riots the next year.

Nika riots in the Hippodrome of Constantinople

* January 13 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams — the Blues and the Greens — in the Hippodrome escalates into violence.

Two chariot racing factions, the Blues and the Greens, were involved in the Nika riots which lasted around a week in 532 CE ; nearly half the city was burned or destroyed in addition to tens of thousands of deaths.

Sports riots can be sparked by the losing or winning of a specific team, such as the Nika riots.

The Nika riots (), or Nika revolt, took place over the course of a week in Constantinople in AD 532.

* Theodora and the Emperor ( 1952 ) by Harold Lamb is a historical fiction novel that follows the events of the Nika riots closely, using timelines and characters based on historical documents.

* Much of the plot in the fantasy novel The Clocks of Iraz ( 1971 ) by L. Sprague de Camp turns on mass rioting by rival sporting factions, loosely modeled on the Nika riots.

* In 1974, the ITV science fiction television series The Tomorrow People ran a serial entitled The Blue and the Green, citing the role of the D ' henagali, an alien energy-based species that fed on human emotions, as the cause of the Blue and Green factions, and the Nika riots, as similar factions re-emerge in the United Kingdom in the early seventies.

The opening ends with the city consumed in devastating riots, very similar to the Nika riots.

* In the Heart of Darkness ( 1998 ), the second book of the alternate history Belisarius series by Eric Flint and David Drake, gives a significantly different outcome of the Nika riots because of the influence of Malwa as the financiers of the revolt and the introduction of a grenadier company led by Belisarius ' wife, Antonina.

The female vocals are performed by Nika Futterman.

Virus Syndicate are a British grime collective from Manchester, centered around DJ Mark One, Syndicate ( USA ) and the MCs Goldfinger, JSD and Nika D. They often supply the vocal accompaniment on Mark One's solo recordings, specifically on his debut LP, One Way.

She then immediately reached the finals of another $ 25, 000 ITF event ( this one in Redbridge ) before being beaten by Nika Ožegović.

After the Nika Revolt destroyed much of the city of Constantinople in 532, Justinian had the opportunity to rebuild.

* Procopius, " Justinian Suppresses the Nika Revolt, 532 ", from the Internet Medieval Sourcebook.

Riots culminated in the Nika riots of 532 AD during the reign of Justinian, which began when the two main factions united and attempted unsuccessfully to overthrow the emperor.

The current ( third ) Hagia Sophia was built by Justinian following the Nika Revolt.

In 532, some of the Senators gave their support to the Nika rioters against Justinian I, who did not like or trust the wealthy Senate.

According to ancient historians, Emperor Constantine built a structure that was later rebuilt and enlarged by Emperor Justinian after the Nika riots of 532, which devastated the city.

Hypatius (; died 532 ) was a Byzantine noble of Imperial descent who held the position of commander in the East during the reign of Justin I, and was chosen by the mob as Emperor during the Nika riots against Justinian I.

His acting in the film was praised by Alexis II, Patriarch of Moscow, and won him a Best Actor Nika Award.

He is most famous for his film trilogy: The Plea ( The Supplication ) ( 1968 ), The Tree of Desire ( 1976 ), and Repentance ( 1984, released 1987 ), which won him the Lenin Prize ( 1988 ) and the first Nika Award for Best Picture.

Boris Yeltsin presented the Lifetime Achievement Nika Award to him in 2002.

Finally able to convince a single member of the Vancouver Police Department, constable Nika Mandic, the three of them try to track down the mysterious " Allen ", while wrestling with the practical and moral implications of what to do about him once they find him.

By the end of the day, at race 22, the partisan chants had changed from " Blue " or " Green " to a unified (" Nika ", meaning " Win!

* In 532, the rivalry between supporters of the Blue and Green chariot-racing teams in Constantinople led to 30, 000 deaths in the Nika riots.

The scene as described also sounds remarkably like Belisarius ' slaughter of the Nika rioters in the Hippodrome in 6th century Constantinople.

Fires started by the Nika rioters consumed Constantine's basilica of St Sophia, the city's principal church, which lay to the north of the Augustaeum.

in the course of the Nika Riot, “ The temple of Sophia, the baths of Zeuxippus, and the imperial courtyard from the Propylaia all the way to the so-called House of Ares were burned up and destroyed, as were both of the great porticos that lead to the forum that is named after Constantine, houses of prosperous people, and a great deal of other properties .” The warring factions of Byzantine society, the Blues and the Greens, opposed each other in the chariot races at the Hippodrome and often resorted to violence.

During the Nika Riot, more than thirty thousand people died.

After Ziro's agents deliver the Huttlet to the planet Teth, Dooku contacts Ziro again to arrange for Asajj Ventress ( Nika Futterman ) to take custody of Rotta.

The movie got the " Golden Rose " award at the Kinotavr festival and Bodrov received the Nika Award for the best supporting role.