State · 518 – 602

Justinian dynasty

A state of 518 – 602 — 84 years. Its line of rulers holds 8 people.

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Stood: 84 years; 518 – 602
Rulers: 8; the Byzantine emperor
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Rulers

The line of Byzantine emperor.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Justin I	518 – 527	9 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Theodora	527 – 548	21 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death	in-law
Justinian I	527 – 565	38 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	spouse
Justin II	565 – 574	9 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	nephew or niece
Sophia	565 – 578	13 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	spouse
Tiberius II Constantine	574 – 582	8 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Ino Anastasia	578 – 582	4 years	ending not on record	spouse
Maurice	582 – 602	20 years	killedWikidata's manner of death	in-law

8 rulers, 8 with terms dated as terms, covering 518 – 602. Median reign 11 years. 4 of 7 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, undatedSimple Labarum · Public domain

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood84 years
stood longer than 43% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median13 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 44% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record8
has more rulers on record than 76% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 508 – 612, with everything that stood beside it.
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Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q1133400 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.