Rebuilt by the emperor Justin I after an earthquake in the 6th century, it became Justinopolis ( 525 ); but the old native name persisted, and when Thoros I, king of Lesser Armenia, made it his capital early in the 12th century, it was known as Anazarva.

Justin, who was in the imperial guard ( the Excubitors ) before he became emperor, adopted Justinian, brought him to Constantinople, and ensured the boy's education.

Theodoric the Great finds that he has been only partly successful in persuading the Byzantine emperor Justin I to withdraw his edict against Arian Christianity, and throws the pope into prison.

* August 1 – Justin I, age 77, dies at Constantinople and is succeeded by Justinian I who becomes sole emperor.

He is the nephew and heir-apparent of emperor Justin I.

* February 25 – Epiphanius is elected patriarch of Constantinople by the Byzantine emperor Justin I.

* Justin II, emperor of the Byzantine Empire ( d. 578 )

Thanks to his position commanding the only troops in the city and making gifts of money, Justin was able to secure election as emperor in 518.

* October 5 – Justin II, Roman emperor

" The four last years of the emperor Justin were passed in tranquil obscurity: his conscience was no longer tormented by the remembrance of those duties which he was incapable of discharging ; and his choice was justified by the filial reverence and gratitude of Tiberius.

* Justin II ( 520 – 578 ), or Flavius Iustinius Iunior Augustus, an Eastern Roman emperor who ruled from 565 to 578

But he also composed over a hundred epigrams, which he published together with epigrams by friends and contemporaries in a Cycle of New Epigrams or Cycle of Agathias, probably early in the reign of emperor Justin II ( r. 565-578 ).

The emperor Justin prostrated himself before him, and wished to be crowned by his hand.

The Acacian schism lasted through the long and troubled reign of the Byzantine emperor Anastasius I, and was only healed by Justin I under Pope Hormisdas in 519.

The Henoticon failed to restore unity to the East, and in 519 the Byzantine emperor Justin I submitted to Pope Hormisdas, and the condemnation of Acacius was recognized by the church of Constantinople.

The new emperor, Justin II, was crowned by the patriarch, November 14, 565.

Early uses of the term ( in the first sense ) include Plato's Apology ( the defense speech of Socrates from his trial ) and some works of early Christian apologists, such as St. Justin Martyr's two Apologies addressed to the emperor Antoninus Pius and the Roman Senate.

Born in Thrace in the mid sixth century Tiberius was appointed to the post of Notarius where sometime after 552 he was introduced by the Patriarch Eutychius to the future emperor Justin with whom he became firm friends.

In 574, the emperor Justin had a mental breakdown, forcing the empress Sophia to turn to Tiberius to step into the role of managing an empire that was fighting the Persians to the east as well as dealing with the internal crisis of the plague.

O Justin, our emperor, you win!

Word of the slaughter quickly spread throughout the Roman and Persian realms, and refugees from Najran even reached the court of the Roman emperor Justin I himself, begging him to avenge the martyred Christians.

* Arabia ( daughter of Justin II ), the only recorded daughter of Byzantine emperor Justin II ( r. 565 – 578 ) and his empress Sophia

After vainly trying to force the Danubian border when the new Byzantine emperor Justin II denied them both entry and wage, the Avars renewed their ride to Thuringia.

A few months before Augustus ’ death in 14, the emperor wrote and sent a letter to Agrippina mentioning how Caligula must be future emperor because at that time, no other child had this name.

The prefect then wrote to the emperor Theodosius II, telling him of the events.

The beginning of his episcopacy was remarkable for a prodigy by which is related by Socrates, Philostorgius, the chronicle of Alexandria, & c. St. Cyril, an eye-witness wrote immediately to the emperor Constantius, an exact account of this miraculous phenomenon: and his letter is quoted as a voucher for it by Sozomen, Theophanes, Eutychius, John of Nice, Glycas, and others.

A century later, the emperor Babur, a descendent of Taimur, visited Herat and wrote, " the whole habitable world had not such a town as Herat.

Thomas Hodgkin, a translator of Cassiodorus ' works, wrote in 1886 that it was " surely possible " the Romulus in the letter was the same person as the last western emperor.

Rafe de Crespigny, Tong Xiao, and David R. Knechtges claim that Zhang wrote this as an innuendo hinting at his inability to keep in contact with the emperor, hindered by unworthy rivals and petty men.

For his part, commentator Alexander Kiossev, wrote in " Understanding the Balkans: " The hero of one nation might be the villain of its neighbour (...) The Byzantine emperor Basil the Murderer ( sic ) of Bulgarians, a crucial figure in the Greek pantheon of heroes, is no less important as a subject of hatred for our national mythology ".

Before his exile, Libanius was a friend of the emperor Julian, with whom some correspondence survives, and in whose memory he wrote a series of orations ; they were composed between 362 and 365.

After the synod, Pope Martin wrote to Constans, informing the emperor of its conclusions and requiring him to condemn both the Monothelite doctrine and his own Type.

During his years of imprisonment, he wrote essays and pamphlets that combined his claim to be emperor with progressive, mildly socialist economic proposals, published as L ' extinction du paupérisme, which he came to define as Bonapartism.

The pope guardedly carried on negotiations, convened a synod at Rome and wrote to the emperor on 8 July to announce the departure of an embassy for Constantinople.

In the 6th century, the Byzantine emperor Maurice I wrote the Strategikon, a manual of war that codified a number of military reforms of the time.

# The settlement was named by the Spanish after the celebrated Roman jurist Volusio, who wrote 30 books and tutored Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor and philosopher.

According to sixth century Byzantine emperor Mauricius's Strategikon wrote of the Slavs:

As the biographer wrote, " Verus obeyed Marcus ... as a lieutenant obeys a proconsul or a governor obeys the emperor.

Æthelweard wrote his work on request of his relative Mathilde, abbess of Essen monastery and granddaughter of emperor Otto I and Eadgyth of Wessex, to help her in the duty of keeping the remembrance of the dead relatives.

In 1937 he wrote ,“ I know very well that the overwhelming majority of the Austrian population would like me to assume the heritage of the peace emperor, my beloved father, rather earlier than later.

Paul B. Henze wrote, " She is said to have killed the emperor, ascended the throne herself, and reigned for 40 years.

In 1710 he wrote a paper on the possibility of spiders being used to produce silk, which was so celebrated at the time that the Chinese emperor Kang-he had it translated into Chinese.

He wrote in direct response to the Byzantine iconoclasm that began in the eighth century by the Byzantine emperor Leo III and continued by his successor Constantine V. St. John maintains that depicting the invisible God is indeed wrong, but he argues that the incarnation, where " the Word became flesh " ( John 1: 14 ), indicates that the invisible God became visible, and as a result it is permissible to depict Jesus Christ.

Straining under French censorship, she wrote to the emperor a provoking and perhaps undignified letter.

23, p. 897 ), as a result Anatolius wrote to the emperor Leo against Timothy ( Labbe, iii.

170 ; an early Christian apologist, he wrote to the emperor Marcus Aurelius.

* Claudius Eusthenius, secretary to the emperor Diocletian, he wrote lives of Diocletian, Maximian, Galerius, and Constantius.