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CHAPTER XLV
REIGN OF THE YOUNGER JUSTIN.
SETTLEMENT ON THE DANUBE.
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THEIR
EMBASSY OF THE AVARS.
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
FIRST.
A. D.
565. Death of Justinian....
565-574. Reign of Justin II. or the Younger...
566. His Consulship......
Embassy of the Avars..
Alboin, King of the Lombards-his Valour, Love, and Revenge.
The Lombards and Avars destroy the King and Kingdom of the
Gepidæ......
567. Alboin undertakes the Conquest of Italy..
Disaffection and Death of Narses...
568-570. Conquest of a great Part of Italy by the Lombards...
473. Alboin is murdered by his Wife Rosamond.....
Her Flight and Death.....
Clepho, King of the Lombards...
Weakness of the Emperor Justin..
574. Association of Tiberius.
578. Death of Justin II...........
578-582. Reign of Tiberus II........
His Virtues......
582-602. The Reign of Maurice..
Distress of Italy......
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299
300
ib.
301
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
TYRANNY OF PHOCAS. ELEVATION
WAR.- CHOSROES SUBDUES SYRIA,
AGAINST MAURICE. HIS DEATH.
OF HERACLIUS.
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THE PERSIAN
EGYPT, AND ASIA MINOR.
SIEGE OF CONSTANTINOPLE BY THE PER-
SIANS AND AVARS. PERSIAN EXPEDITIONS. VICTORIES AND TRIUMPH
570-600. Pride, Policy, and Power of the Chagan of the Avars...
342
626. Deliverance of Constantinople from the Persians and Avars..... 368