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The Secret History of Emperor Justinian

Noble Blood

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The Byzantine Empire

In 395, the Roman emperor Theodosius I died and split his empire into eastern and western halves. By the mid-fifth century, the western portion of the empire was in shambles. In 483, a boy named Petrus Cebaceous was born to a peasant family in present-day Macedonia.

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