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MAURICE (MAURICIUS FLAVIUS TIBERIUS) (c. 539–602) , See also:

East See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor from 582 to 602, was of Roman descent, but a native of Arabissus in See also:

CAPPADOCIA

Cappadocia. He spent his youth at the See also:

court of See also:

JUSTIN (JUNIANUS JUSTINUS)

Justin II., and, having joined the See also:

army, fought with distinction in the See also:

Persian See also:

War (578–581). At the See also:

AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of See also:

FORTY

forty-three he was declared See also:

Caesar by the dying emperor Tiberius II., who bestowed upon him the See also:

hand of his daughter Constantina. Maurice brought the Persian War to a successful See also:

close by the restoration of See also:

CHOSROES

Chosroes II. to the See also:

THRONE

throne (591). On the See also:

NORTHERN

northern frontier he at first bought off the See also:

AVARS

Avars by payments which compelled him to exercise strict See also:

ECONOMY

economy in his See also:

general See also:

ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration, but after J95 inflicted several defeats upon them through his general Crispus. By his strict discipline and his refusal to See also:

RANSOM (from Lat. redemptio, through Fr. rancon)

ransom a See also:

CAPTIVE (from Lat. capere, to take)

captive See also:

CORPS (pronounced as in French, from which it is taken, being a late spelling of tors, from Lat. corpus, a body; cf. " corpse ")

corps he provoked to See also:

mutiny the army on the See also:

DANUBE (Ger. Donau, Hungarian Duna, Rumanian Dunarea, Lat. Danubius or Danuvius, and in the lower part of its course Ister)

Danube. The revolt spread to the popular factions in See also:

Constantinople, and Maurice consented to abdicate. He withdrew to See also:

Chalcedon, but was hunted down and put to See also:

DEATH

death after witnessing the slaughter of his five sons. The See also:

WORK

work on military See also:

ART

art (arparnyuca) ascribed to him is a See also:

CON

con-temporary work of unknown authorship (ed. See also:

SCHEFFER, ARY (1795-1858)

Scheffer, Arriani tactica et Mauricii ars militaris, See also:

UPSALA, or UPPSALA

Upsala, 1664; see Max Jahns, Gesch. d. Kriegswissensch., i.

152—156). See Theophylactus See also:

SIMOCATTA

Simocatta, Vita Mauricii (ed. de Boor, 1887) ; E. See also:

Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman See also:

EMPIRE

Empire (ed. See also:

Bury, See also:

LONDON

London, 1896, v. 19-2I, 57); J. B. Bury, The Later Roman Empire (London, 1889, ii. 83—94) ; G. See also:

FINLAY, GEORGE (1799-1875)

Finlay, See also:

HISTORY

History of See also:

GREECE

Greece (ed. 1877, See also:

Oxford, i. 299-306).

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