Tribonian (Greek: Τριβωνιανός [trivonia'nos], c. 485?–542) was a notable Byzantine jurist and advisor, who during the reign of the Emperor Justinian I, supervised the revision of the legal code of the Byzantine Empire. He has been described as one of the wisest collaborators of Emperor Justinian. Tribonian was a Greek, born in Side, in Pamphylia, around the year 500.

Justinian was born in Tauresium, Dardania, around 482. A native speaker of Latin (possibly the last Roman emperor to be one), he came from a peasant family believed to have been of Illyro-Roman or of Thraco-Roman origin. The cognomen Iustinianus, which he took later, is indicative of adoption by his uncle Justin. During his reign, he founded Justiniana Prima not far from his …

History. The first courthouse was built between 1743 and 1747 in the old town, on Place Daviel, opposite the église des Accoules. In the building known as Hôtel Daviel is currently found the local office of the mayor. At the beginning of the 19th century, the location of the Hôtel Daviel was found to be insufficient for the task, and La Coste proposed in 1839 to the General Council that a ...

The Cardinal and Theological Virtues is a lunette fresco by Raphael found on the south wall of the Stanza della Segnatura in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican.Three of the cardinal virtues are personified as statuesque women seated in a bucolic landscape and the theological virtues are depicted by putti.The fresco was a part of Raphael's commission to decorate the private …

Justinian war ein Neffe des späteren Kaisers Justin I., der seit etwa 470 im Heer Kaiser Leos I. und später unter Zenon und Anastasius Karriere machte. Schon zu Lebzeiten seines Onkels, der ihn in die Hauptstadt holte, ihm eine gute Ausbildung ermöglichte, ihn vor 520 adoptierte und nach seiner Thronbesteigung (518) wohl früh zum Nachfolger aufbaute, hatte Justinian nach …

A quaestor (/ ˈ k w iː s t ər / KWEE-stər, Latin: [ˈkʷae̯stɔr]; "investigator") was a public official in Ancient Rome.There were various types of quaestors, with the title used to describe greatly different offices at different times. In the Roman Republic, quaestors were elected officials who supervised the state treasury and conducted audits.When assigned to provincial governors, …

The Code of Justinian (Latin: Codex Justinianus, Justinianeus or Justiniani) is one part of the Corpus Juris Civilis, the codification of Roman law ordered early in the 6th century AD by Justinian I, who was Eastern Roman emperor in Constantinople.Two other units, the Digest and the Institutes, were created during his reign.The fourth part, the Novellae Constitutiones (New …

This history of the Byzantine Empire covers the history of the Eastern Roman Empire from late antiquity until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 AD. Several events from the 4th to 6th centuries mark the transitional period during which the Roman Empire's east and west divided.In 285, the emperor Diocletian (r. 284–305) partitioned the Roman Empire's administration into eastern …

Für das Volk der Griechen gab es im Laufe der Geschichte verschiedene Bezeichnungen.Bis heute können viele dieser Namen als austauschbar betrachtet werden, so dass die Griechen zu den polyonymen (vielnamigen) Völkern zählen.. Die frühesten Eigenbezeichnungen finden sich in der Ilias und beziehen sich auf die Männer, die der argivische König Agamemnon gegen Troja …

The Institutes (Latin: Institutiones) is a component of the Corpus Juris Civilis, the 6th-century codification of Roman law ordered by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I.It is largely based upon the Institutes of Gaius, a Roman jurist of the second century A.D.The other parts of the Corpus Juris Civilis are the Digest, the Codex Justinianus, and the Novellae Constitutiones ("New …