Justinian I | Wikipedia audio article
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Justinian I


00:02:12 1 Life
00:06:30 2 Reign
00:06:38 2.1 Legislative activities
00:09:15 2.2 Nika riots
00:10:33 2.3 Military activities
00:11:15 2.3.1 War with the Sassanid Empire, 527–532
00:12:06 2.3.2 Conquest of North Africa, 533–534
00:14:02 2.3.3 War in Italy, first phase, 535–540
00:15:55 2.3.4 War with the Sassanid Empire, 540–562
00:17:47 2.3.5 War in Italy, second phase, 541–554
00:19:52 2.3.6 Other campaigns
00:21:01 2.4 Results
00:22:31 2.5 Religious activities
00:23:58 2.5.1 Religious policy
00:26:10 2.5.2 Religious relations with Rome
00:28:22 2.5.3 Authoritarian rule
00:30:58 2.6 Architecture, learning, art and literature
00:33:47 2.7 Economy and administration
00:37:15 3 Natural disasters
00:38:38 4 Cultural depictions
00:40:06 5 Historical sources
00:40:53 6 See also
00:41:06 7 Notes
00:41:22 8 Primary sources
00:42:58 9 Bibliography
00:46:37 10 External links



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Justinian I (; Latin: Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus Augustus; Greek: Φλάβιος Πέτρος Σαββάτιος Ἰουστινιανός, translit. Flávios Pétros Sabbátios Ioustinianós; c. 482 – 14 November 565), traditionally known as Justinian the Great and also Saint Justinian the Great in the Eastern Orthodox Church, was the Eastern Roman emperor from 527 to 565. During his reign, Justinian sought to revive the empire's greatness and reconquer the lost western half of the historical Roman Empire. Justinian's rule constitutes a distinct epoch in the history of the Later Roman empire, and his reign is marked by the ambitious but only partly realized renovatio imperii, or "restoration of the Empire".Because of his restoration activities, Justinian has sometimes been known as  the "last Roman" in modern historiography. This ambition was expressed by the partial recovery of the territories of the defunct Western Roman Empire. His general, Belisarius, swiftly conquered the Vandal Kingdom in North Africa. Subsequently, Belisarius, Narses, and other generals conquered the Ostrogothic kingdom, restoring Dalmatia, Sicily, Italy, and Rome to the empire after more than half a century of rule by the Ostrogoths. The prefect Liberius reclaimed the south of the Iberian peninsula, establishing the province of Spania. These campaigns re-established Roman control over the western Mediterranean, increasing the Empire's annual revenue by over a million solidi. During his reign, Justinian also subdued the Tzani, a people on the east coast of the Black Sea that had never been under Roman rule before. He engaged the Sasanian Empire in the east during Kavadh I's reign, and later again during Khosrow I's; this second conflict was partially initiated due to his ambitions in the west.
A still more resonant aspect of his legacy was the uniform rewriting of Roman law, the Corpus Juris Civilis, which is still the basis of civil law in many modern states. His reign also marked a blossoming of Byzantine culture, and his building program yielded such masterpieces as the church of Hagia Sophia.