Justinian II
Byzantine Emperor from 685 to 695 and from 705 to 711
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A Byzantine emperor so brutal his subjects cut off his nose and exiled him — then watched him claw back the throne a decade later with a foreign army and settle every score twice as hard.
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Justinian II took the Byzantine throne in 685 with his famous predecessor's name and his ambition to match: he wanted the Roman Empire restored to full glory. What he lacked was his father Constantine IV's political touch. Opposition met savage reprisal, and by 695 the capital had had enough — a popular uprising deposed him and mutilated his face, the nose-slitting that earned him his nickname. Most men would have disappeared. Justinian spent ten years in exile, returned in 705 at the head of a Bulgarian army, and reclaimed the throne. His second reign made the first look restrained. In 711, h…
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