马其顿王朝
Emperor Basil I was the founder of the Macedonian dynasty, the most successful in Byzantine history. Basil regarded himself as a restorer of the empire, a new Justinian, and initiated a great building program in Constantinople in emulation his great predecessor. The "Nea" was to be Basil's Hagia Sophia, with its very name, "New Church", implying the beginning of a new era.