Twenty Years' Anarchy

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In the year 695 AD, Justinian II, the last emperor of the Heraclian line, was mutilated and exiled to Chersonesus. In his place was crowned a military commander named Leontius.

⏰ Timestamps
0:00 - Leontius
1:48 - Tiberius III
5:35 - Justinian II
9:54 - Philippicus
11:01 - Anastasius II
12:53 - Theodosius III
14:34 - Siege of Constantinople

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📚 Main sources
- John Haldon, The Empire That Would Not Die: Harvard; 2016
- Jean-Claude Cheynet, Le Monde Byzantin II - L'empire byzantin (641-1204): puf; 2012

🌐 Online resources
- Wikipedia fr eng, 2023
- World History Encyclopedia, 2023
- Historical Maps on Youtube

🖼️ Picture credits
- Illustrations of the reign of Justinian II, Astromentum on Wikipedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0
- Coins of emperors, Classical Numismatic Group on Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 2.5
- Coins of caliphs, Classical Numismatic Group on Wikimedia Commons CC0 1.0
- Aqueduct of Zaghouan, Royonx on Wikimedia Commons CC0 1.0

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A pivotal moment in “Byzantine” Roman History. It started the iconoclast controversy which would go on for a century, yet simultaneously saved the empire from total collapse in the Arab invasion of 717 AD.

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iexist

the 20 years of anarchy could easy be the last 20 years of the empire
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arthur-yqic

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TurrisBlancus

Theophanes the Confessor, who was a prominent Byzantine Greek Scholar and Chronicler, with his monumental work “Chronographia” (Χρονογραφία), covers the events from the accession of Diocletian in 284 AD (which is the point where the Chronicle of George Syncellus ends), to the downfall of Emperor Michael I in 813 AD.

This part of the Chronicle is valuable for having preserved the accounts of lost authorities on Byzantine history for the seventh and eighth centuries that would be otherwise have been lost.

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It's so improbable the Byzantines 600s-700s hung on with the Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphates swallowing up Persian Iran whole, Mesopotamia, Levant, Egypt and North Africa, and probing Indian subcontinent. Asia Minor wasn't even as mountainous a barrier as Iran. Oh, AND Balkan invasions.

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