Maurice
539 CE–602 CE · Constantinople
Maurice was Byzantine emperor from 582 to 602, an able general and administrator who inherited an empire strained by war on multiple fronts. He concluded a favorable peace with Sasanian Persia by helping the shah Khosrow II regain his throne, and campaigned to stabilize the Balkan frontier against the Avars and Slavs. He reorganized the western territories into the exarchates of Ravenna and Carthage and is traditionally credited with a military treatise, the Strategikon. In 602 a mutiny led by the officer Phocas overthrew and executed him, an act that gave Persia a pretext for a long and devastating war.
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Rulers world
- Emperor Wen of Sui· 541 CE–604 CE
- Phocas· 547 CE–610 CE
- Hormizd IV· –590 CE
- Empress Suiko· 554 CE–628 CE
- Emperor Yang of Sui· 569 CE–618 CE
- Khosrow I Anushirvan· 512 CE–579 CE
- Prince Shotoku· 574 CE–622 CE
- Khosrow II Parviz· 570 CE–628 CE
- Pulakeshin II· –642 CE
- Heraclius· 575 CE–641 CE
- Justinian I· 482 CE–565 CE
- Harsha· 590 CE–647 CE
- K'an II· 588 CE–658 CE
- Bumin Qaghan· –552 CE
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