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JUSTIN II . (d. 578), See also:East See also:Roman See also:emperor (565-578), was the See also:nephew and successor of Justinian I. He availed himself of his See also:influence as See also:master of the See also:palace, and as See also:husband of See also:Sophia, the niece of the See also:late empress See also:Theodora, to secure a peaceful See also:election. The first few days of his reign—when he paid his See also:uncle's debts, administered See also:justice in See also:person, and proclaimed universal religious See also:toleration—gave See also:bright promise, but in the See also:face of the lawless See also:aristocracy and defiant See also:governors of provinces he effected few subsequent reforms. The most important event of his reign was the invasion of See also:Italy by the See also:Lombards (q.v.), who, entering in 568, under See also:Alboin, in a few years made themselves masters of nearly the entire See also:country. Justin's See also:attention was distracted from Italy towards the N. and E. frontiers. After refusing to pay the See also:Avars See also:tribute, he fought several unsuccessful See also:campaigns against them. In 572 his overtures to the See also:Turks led to a See also:war with See also:Persia. - After two disastrous campaigns, in which his enemies overran See also:Syria, Justin bought a See also:precarious See also:peace by See also:payment of a yearly tribute. The temporary fits of See also:insanity into which he See also:fell warned him to name a colleague. Passing over his own relatives, he raised, on the See also:advice of Sophia, the See also:general Tiberius (q.v.) to be See also:Caesar in See also:December 574 and withdrew for his remaining years into retirement.

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Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman See also:Empire (ed. See also:Bury, 1896), v. 2-17; G. See also:Finlay, See also:History of See also:Greece (ed. 1877), 1. 291-297; J. Bury, The Later Roman Empire (1889), ii. 67-79. (M. O. B.

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