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JUSTIN I

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 596 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JUSTIN I  . (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 . 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 . 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 . 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) . In 522 he entered upon a desultory See also:war with See also:Persia, in which he co-operated with the See also:Arabs . In 522 also Justin ceded to See also:Theodoric, the See also:Gothic See also:king of See also:Italy, the right of naming the consuls . On the 1st of See also:April 527 Justin, enfeebled by an incurable See also:wound, yielded to the See also:request of the See also:senate and assumed Justinian at his colleague; on the 1st of See also:August he died . Justin bestowed much care on the repairing of public buildings throughout his See also:empire, and contributed large sums to repair the damage caused by a destructive See also:earthquake at See also:Antioch . See E . See also:Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (ed . See also:Bury, 1896), iv .

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