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Belisarius, the General Who Upheld Justinian’s Empire and Refused to Be Emperor of the West

I entrusted the care of arms to my Belisarius, and so favorable did the divine hand show itself to him that it gave me the security to live peacefully. These words, which Dante Alighieri places in the ...
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5c Tribonian Presenting Pandects to Justinian I single

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Dead Bodies Filled a Mass Grave When the First Plague Pandemic Struck This Early Medieval City. New Research Explores the Identity of the Victims

Researchers analyzed isotopes and DNA in the teeth of remains found in a mass grave from the Plague of Justinian, which swept through the Byzantine Empire ...
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A Monumental Byzantine Basilica Built by Justinian, Found in the Ancient Roman City of Aquileia

Aquileia, a small town in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region in northeastern Italy, is now a modest place with barely 3,000 inhabitants. However, its past is among the richest and most significant in ...
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10c Tribonian Presenting Pandects to Justinian I single

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