JUSTINIAN I (482–565), Roman emperor, was born in or near Skopje in Macedonia, a city where the local aristocracy spoke Latin. The trusted minister of his uncle, Justin I, from 518,...
Byzantine emperor who sought to restore the Roman empire by reclaiming territories in Western Europe that had been taken by Germanic tribes. With his armies, under the command of Gen...
The most famous of all the emperors of the Byzantine, or Eastern Roman Empire, was Justinian I. After becoming emperor, he
embarked upon an extensive building pro...
Justinian I (ca. 482-565) was Byzantine emperor from 527 to 565. Ruling in a transitional epoch, he was both a conscious steward of the past and a pragmatic innovator.The Roman Empire in the 4th centu...