Constantine V
718 CE–775 CE · Constantinople
Constantine V was Byzantine emperor from 741 to 775, son of Leo III and a forceful military commander who won repeated campaigns against the Arabs and the Bulgars. He was a leading proponent of iconoclasm, convening the Council of Hieria in 754 to condemn the veneration of icons and pressing the policy vigorously against monastic opposition. His reforms strengthened the army and the state's finances, and his supporters remembered him as a capable and victorious ruler. Iconophile writers, by contrast, vilified him, giving him the derisive nickname Kopronymos.
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- al-Mansur· 714 CE–775 CE
- Yaxun Bahlam IV (Bird Jaguar IV)· 709 CE–
- K'ak' Tiliw Chan Yopaat (Cauac Sky)· –785 CE
- al-Saffah (Abu al-Abbas)· 721 CE–754 CE
- Abd al-Rahman I· 731 CE–788 CE
- al-Mahdi· 744 CE–785 CE
- al-Walid II· 709 CE–744 CE
- Emperor Xuanzong of Tang· 685 CE–762 CE
- K'ak' Tiliw Chan Chaak (Smoking Squirrel)· 688 CE–
- Emperor Kanmu· 737 CE–806 CE
- Hisham I· 757 CE–796 CE
- Irene of Athens· 752 CE–803 CE
- K'inich Ahkal Mo' Nahb III· 678 CE–
- Leo III the Isaurian· 685 CE–741 CE
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