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Thurisind was king of the Gepids, an East Germanic Gothic people, from c. 548 to 560. He was the penultimate Gepid king, and succeeded King Elemund by staging a coup d'état and forcing the king's son
A tinted woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle, of Alboin, the slayer of Thurisind's son Turismod
Justinian was a Byzantine aristocrat and general, and a member of the ruling Justinian dynasty. As a soldier, he had a distinguished career in the Balkans and in the East against Sassanid Persia. In h
Gold solidus of Emperor Tiberius II (r. 574–582). Despite his repeated plotting to overthrow him, the emperor pardoned Justinian.