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CHAPTER XLV
REIGN OF THE YOUNGER JUSTIN.
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EMBASSY OF THE AVARS. -THEIR
SETTLEMENT ON THE DANUBE. CONQUEST OF ITALY BY THE LOM-
BARDS.-ADOPTION AND REIGN OF TIBERIUS.-OF MAURICE.-STATE OF
ITALY UNDER THE LOMBARDS AND THE EXARCHS OF RAVENNA. —
DISTRESS OF ROME. CHARACTER AND PONTIFICATE OF GREGORY THE
Alboin, King of the Lombards-his Valour, Love, and Revenge.
301
The Lombards and Avars destroy the King and Kingdom of the
Gepidæ.......
303
567. Alboin undertakes the Conquest of Italy..
304
Disaffection and Death of Narses...
568-570. Conquest of a great Part of Italy by the Lombards....
306
CHAPTER XLVI.
REVOLUTIONS OF PERSIA AFTER THE DEATH OF CHOSROES OR NUSHIRVAN.
-HIS SON HORMOUZ, A TYRANT, IS deposed.-uSURPATION OF BAHRAM.
-FLIGHT AND RESTORATION OF CHOSROES II. HIS GRATITUDE TO THE
ROMANS.
- THE CHAGAN OF THE AVARS. REVOLT OF THE ARMY
AGAINST MAURICE. HIS DEATH. TYRANNY OF PHOCAS. ELEVATION
THE PERSIAN WAR. CHOSROES SUBDUES SYRIA,
OF
HERACLIUS.
EGYPT, AND ASIA MINOR.- SIEGE OF CONSTANTINOPLE BY THE PER-
PERSIAN EXPEDITIONS. VICTORIES AND TRIUMPH
SIANS AND AVARS.
570-600. Pride, Policy, and Power of the Chagan of the Avars.
342
626. Deliverance of Constantinople from the Persians and Avars..... 368