Tiberius II., Constantinus, short reign of, 114; wars of, 117 Tiberius III., Apsimarus, rebellion of, 177; deposed and slain, 179 Tiberius, son of Justinian II., slain, 180 Togrul Beg, Turkish chief, conquers Bagdad, 251 Totila, _see under_ Baduila Trebizond, empire of, founded, 298 Tribonian, minister of Justinian I., 112 Tricameron, battle of, 85 Turks, _see under_ Seljouks, and names of Ottoman Sultans Tuscany, conquered by the Lombards, 116 Tyana, sacked by Saracens, 182 Uldes, king of the Huns, 51 Urosh, king of Servia, 327 Uscup, capital of Stephen Dushan, 327 Valens, reign of, 36; slain in battle by the Goths, 41 Vandals, kingdom of the, in Africa, 82; conquered by Belisarius, 85 Varangian guards, 239; at Durazzo, 260; at siege of Constantinople, 282, 288 Verona, Baduila at, 92 Venice, rise of, 225; commercial treaties of, with Alexius I., 268; wars with Manuel I., 271; aids the Fourth Crusade, 279; engages in war with Alexius III., 282; share of in plunder of Constantinople, 292; at war with Michael VIII., 314 Vigilius, pope, persecuted by Justinian, 103 Vikings, the, in Russia, 234 Visigoths, the, invade Moesia, 35; slay Valens, 41; under Alaric, 48; migrate to Italy, 49 Vitalian, rebellion of, 61 Welid, caliph, wars of, with the empire, 182 Witiges, Gothic king, 88; besieges Rome, 90; submits to Belisarius, 91 Yezid, Saracen prince, wars of with the empire, 170 Zachariah, patriarch of Jerusalem, 132 Zapetra, taken by Theophilus, 210 Zara, taken by the Crusaders, 280 Zeno, emperor, reorganizes the army, 61; wars of with the Goths, 62; sends Theodoric to Italy, 64 Zeuxippus, baths of, 19 Zimisces, John, murders Nicephoras 1, 233; Russian war of, 235-7; Asiatic conquests of, 239 Zoe, empress, her marriages and reign, 245-7 FOOTNOTES 1 See coin on opposite page. The Bosphorus was supposed to have drawn its name from being the place where Io, when transformed into a cow, forded the strait from Europe into Asia Βοῦς-πορὸς. 2 See coin on page 4. 3 Ammianus Marcellinus. 4 Certainly not by Procopius, whose name it bears. 5 There had been only an isolated raids of Huns in A.D. 395, which penetrated as far as Palestine. No other invasion reached as far as Antioch. 6 “Born in Germania, a district between Thrace and Illyricum,” says his secretary, Procopius. We do not know where the district—a German settlement, presumably—was situated. 7 See chap. ii. p. 22. 8 To hold the view which denied the existence both of a truly human and a truly Divine nature in Our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 See map on p. 20. 10 The murder of Amalasuntha took place _after_ the Roman invasion of Africa; but Theodahat was already on the throne when the Vandal war was proceeding.