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Justinian I 483-565
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Image above:
Justinian I
Detail of the
mosaic in San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy |
Justinian was originally
Petrus Sabbatius who
became Flavius Justinianus,
the Byzantine emperor from 527 until 565, or Justinian the
Great to his friends.
In 537, the now famous Hagia
Sophia Basilica, a major cathedral at Constantinople,
today's Istanbul, was completed. Or reconstructed rather.
Construction had been commenced under Constantine I in 325.
In 1453, it became a mosque. Today it is a museum.
Hagia Sophia
aka Church of the Holy
Wisdom.
One of the most prominent monuments of the Byzantine Empire.
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Justinian managed to rule for 38
years.
One of the things he will be
most remembered for is his code of rulings, the Codex
Justinianus, his compilation of laws. The year? 534.
See also
Governments of Rome.
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