Justinian

Under Justinian's patronage the San Vitale in Ravenna, which features two famous mosaics representing Justinian and Theodora, was completed.

When Justinian assembled his Pandects in the 6th century, a large part of the corpus of laws was derived from these two jurists, and in 533 Justinian recognized the school as one of the three official law schools of the empire.

Like a modern-day Byzantine emperor Justinian, who recovered much of the lost Western Roman Empire, Putin seems to think he can reabsorb the lost Soviet republics.

This is what happened in the AD540s, when the ‘Justinianic plague’ (named after the Byzantine Emperor Justinian) was so devastating that there were said to be not enough people to bury the dead in Constantinople (now Istanbul).

During the reign of Justinian I (527–565), the Empire reached its greatest extent after reconquering much of the western Mediterranean coast, North Africa, Italy, and Rome itself, which it held for two more centuries.

The Broncos lost to the Rams 62-76, but guard Justinian Jessup had a single-game career-high 25 points.

The Byzantine emperor Justinian I ruled in Constantinople in the mid-500s, so here I was, looking at a four-and-a-half-gramme coin that was roughly 1,500 years old.

With 46 seconds left in the game, Broncos guard Justinian Jessup hit a 3-pointer.

It’s called the Justinian or Stone Bridge and the Seyhan River flows underneath.

According to a controversial tradition reported by several medieval sources, Narses, out of spite for having been removed by Justinian's successor Justin II, called the Lombards to Italy.

According to Procopius, Justinian stated at the completion of this edifice, "Solomon I have outdone thee" (in reference to the 1st Jewish temple).

After this, Justinian also felt entitled to settle disputes in papal elections, as he did when he favoured Vigilius and had his rival Silverius deported.

Agapetus is said to have replied, "With eager longing have I come to gaze upon the Most Christian Emperor Justinian.

All of these emperors, except Justinian, used imperial post-consular years for the years of their reign, along with their regnal years.

Amelia R. Brown points out that legislation under Justinian indicates that many of them came from the Caucasus, having light eyes, hair, and skin, as well as the “comely features and fine bodies” desired by slave traders.

Ancient history from prehistoric times to the death of Justinian.

As a Christian Roman emperor, Justinian considered it his divine duty to restore the Roman Empire to its ancient boundaries.

At least the second edition contained some of Justinian's own legislation, including some legislation in Greek.

Because of his restoration activities, Justinian has sometimes been called the " last Roman " in modern historiography.

Benedict symbolically adopted Constantine's two sons Justinian and Heraclius.