The refusal of Justin II to continue …
Years: 566 - 566
The refusal of Justin II to continue the payment of tribute to Avar or Persian preserves the resources of the treasury, which he further increases by levying new taxes.
Praiseworthy as his refusal to submit to blackmail may seem, Justin's intransigence only increases the menace to the empire.
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People
Groups
- Persian people
- Persian Empire, Sassanid, or Sasanid
- East, or Oriens, Praetorian prefecture of
- Avars, Eurasian
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Justinian dynasty
- Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
