Byzantine Emperors

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  • 306

    Constantine I

    Constantine I
  • Period: 306 to 337

    Constantine I

    He created the city of Constantinople.
  • Period: 306 to 337

    Constantine I

    He spread Christianity through all the empire and created the Edict of Milan so that they can also accept any type of religions.
  • Period: 306 to 337

    Constantine I

    Constantine started from the bottom as a 17 year old soldier, he achieved a really high level military education.
  • 401

    Theodosius

    Theodosius
  • Period: 401 to 450

    Theodosius

    He ruled the western and eastern parts of Rome.
  • Period: 401 to 450

    Theodosius

    Theodosius confronted the Gothic War, which happened because the Goth's started invading their territory so that they can get more land, but fortunetely he could handle the situation very well.
  • Period: 401 to 450

    Theodosius

    He has born on January 11, 347 and died on January 17, 395.
  • 527

    Justinian

    Justinian
  • Period: 527 to 565

    Justinian

    He build The Hagia Sophia after the Nika riots, which was a building later turned into a mosque.
  • Period: 527 to 565

    Justinian

    Justinian created new laws that protected both women and slaves in the empire.
  • Period: 527 to 565

    Justinian

    He actually conquered many territory and was the last emperor to speak latin in the empire.
  • 610

    Heraclius

    Heraclius
  • Period: 610 to 641

    Heraclius

    He is known by improving the royal administration and introducing Greek as the official language of the Byzantine Empire.
  • Period: 610 to 641

    Heraclius

    Since he started with the militarization in Anatolia, he provided land grants not only for frontier soldiers but for soldiers and peasants in the interior too.
  • Period: 610 to 641

    Heraclius

    With a powerful sense of reality, he adjusted the empire to the needs of the 7th century, by departmentalizing the great state offices and many more projects.
  • 775

    Irene of Athens

    Irene of Athens
  • Period: 775 to 780

    Irene of Athens

    She ended up with Iconoclasm
  • Period: 775 to 780

    Irene of Athens

    Even though she was the first women empress, she still wanted more power.
  • Period: 775 to 780

    Irene of Athens

    Irene sent a men to blind her own son for conspiring her.
  • 976

    Basil II

    Basil II
  • Period: 976 to 1025

    Basil II

    He expanded the empire by taking over Bulgaria for revenge.
  • Period: 976 to 1025

    Basil II

    Basil II ended with the Anatolian aristocrats in the empire.
  • Period: 976 to 1025

    Basil II

    Before becoming the emperor, he was first crowned co-emperor and died in December 15,1025.
  • 1028

    Zoe

    Zoe
  • Period: 1028 to 1050

    Zoe

    She represented and defended women in the whole empire.
  • Period: 1028 to 1050

    Zoe

    She turned the Hagia Sophia into a mosque, which is the Islam church.
  • Period: 1028 to 1050

    Zoe

    She had always been jealous of Theodora and ended up killing Romulus III, his first husband.
  • 1042

    Theodora

    Theodora
  • Period: 1042 to 1056

    Theodora

    She was one of the first women to become an empress for the empire, which was a great achievement in that time and the reason why many women admired her.
  • Period: 1042 to 1056

    Theodora

    She was born in 497 and died on June 28,548
  • Period: 1042 to 1056

    Theodora

    Zoe vanished Theodora of her position in the empire.