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See also:JUSTIN I
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(450—527),See also:East See also:Roman See also:emperor (518-527), was See also:born in 450 as a See also:peasant in See also:Asia, but enlisting under See also:Leo I. he See also:rose to be See also:commander of the imperial See also:guards of See also:Anastasius
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On the latter's See also:death in 518 See also:Justin used for his own See also:election to the See also:throne See also:money that he had received for the support of another See also:candidate
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Being ignorant even of the rudiments of letters, Justin entrusted the See also:administration of See also:state to his See also:wise and faithful See also:quaestor See also:Proclus and to his See also:nephew Justinian, though his own experience dictated several improvements in military affairs
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An orthodox churchman himself, he effected in 519 a reconciliation of the Eastern and Western Churches, after a See also:schism of See also:thirty-five years (see HORaIISDAS)
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In 522 he entered upon a desultory See also:war with See also:Persia, in which he co-operated with the See also:Arabs
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In 522 also Justin ceded to See also:Theodoric, the See also:Gothic See also: 206-209 . |
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