{"slug": "maurice-emperor", "label": "Maurice (emperor)", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_%28emperor%29", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q181764", "qid": "Q181764", "description": "Byzantine Emperor (539-602)", "entries": 25, "years": 23, "span": [539, 605], "span_label": ["539 CE", "605 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 15}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 4}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "byzantine-army", "label": "Byzantine army", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "pannonian-avars", "label": "Pannonian Avars", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "byzantinesassanid-war-of-572591", "label": "Byzantine–Sassanid War of 572–591", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "danube", "label": "Danube", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "balkans", "label": "Balkans", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "sassanid-empire", "label": "Sassanid Empire", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "armenia", "label": "Armenia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "slavs", "label": "Slavs", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "syria", "label": "Syria", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "mesopotamia", "label": "Mesopotamia", "shared": 2}], "items": [{"year": 539, "year_label": "539 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Maurice, emperor of the Byzantine Empire (d. 602)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364754969#Births", "title": "539", "revid": 1364754969, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 575, "year_label": "575 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Byzantine–Sassanid War: A Byzantine army under command of Maurice drives the Persians from Cappodocia (modern Turkey), and strengthens the Byzantine position in Caucasian Albania.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367658531#Asia_Minor", "title": "575", "revid": 1367658531, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor"}}, {"year": 577, "year_label": "577 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Winter – Maurice is appointed commander-in-chief of the Byzantine army in the East. He succeeds Justinian, despite complete lack of military experience.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369170756#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "577", "revid": 1369170756, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 578, "year_label": "578 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Byzantine–Sassanid War: A Byzantine army under command of Maurice (magister militum per Orientem) invades Upper Mesopotamia, and raids on both sides of the Tigris. He deports 70,000 captives from Hyrcania to Cyprus, and installs military colonists to guard the strategic locations.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340801573#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "578", "revid": 1340801573, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 579, "year_label": "579 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Byzantine-Sassanid War: King Khosrau I seeks peace, but dies before an agreement can be reached. The Mesopotamian front becomes stalemated, and Maurice (magister militum of the East) fortifies the borders in Armenia and Syria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267073496#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "579", "revid": 1267073496, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 581, "year_label": "581 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Byzantine–Sasanian War: A Byzantine army commanded by Maurice, and supported by Ghassanid forces under King Al-Mundhir III, fails to capture the Persian capital, Ctesiphon, along the Euphrates.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340801589#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "581", "revid": 1340801589, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 582, "year_label": "582 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 14", "text": "August 14 – Emperor Tiberius II Constantine, age 47, dies (possibly from deliberately poisoned food) at Constantinople, after a 4-year reign during which Thrace and Greece have been inundated by the Slavs. He is succeeded by his son-in-law Maurice, former notary who has commanded the Byzantine army in the war against the Persian Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364751218#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "582", "revid": 1364751218, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 583, "year_label": "583 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Maurice decides to end the annual tribute to the Avars, a mounted people who have swept across Russia and threatened the Balkan Peninsula. They capture the cities of Singidunum (modern Belgrade) and Viminacium (Moesia).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372793107#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "583", "revid": 1372793107, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 586, "year_label": "586 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Emperor Maurice rejects a peace proposal of the Persians, in exchange for renewed payments in gold.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364748798#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "586", "revid": 1364748798, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 587, "year_label": "587 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Maurice builds more fortifications along the Danube frontier, separating the Byzantine Empire from the realm of the Avars and Slavs (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364756380#Eastern_Roman_Empire", "title": "587", "revid": 1364756380, "section": "Events › By place › Eastern Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 588, "year_label": "588 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Guaram I of Iberia, Georgian prince in exile, is sent by Emperor Maurice to the city of Mtskheta (Georgia). He restores the monarchy and is bestowed with the Byzantine court title of curopalates.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364753170#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "588", "revid": 1364753170, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 590, "year_label": "590 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Byzantine–Sassanid War: Emperor Maurice defeats the Persian forces under Bahrām Chobin at Nisibis (modern Turkey), and drives them back into Armenia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364753220#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "590", "revid": 1364753220, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 591, "year_label": "591 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Byzantine–Sassanid War: Emperor Maurice, seeing an opportunity to end the prolonged war to the advantage of Constantinople, assists Khosrau II to regain the Persian throne. He sends a Byzantine army (35,000 men) under Narses into Mesopotamia, through Syria. At the same time, an expeditionary force in Armenia advances through Caucasian Iberia into Media (modern Azerbaijan).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364751608#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "591", "revid": 1364751608, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 592, "year_label": "592 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Maurice regains the Byzantine stronghold Singidunum (modern Belgrade) from the Avars. By counter-invading their homelands on the Balkans, Byzantine troops increase their pay by pillaging in hostile territory.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364754934#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "592", "revid": 1364754934, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 593, "year_label": "593 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Autumn – Emperor Maurice orders Priscus to spend the winter with his troops on the northern Danube bank, but he disobeys the emperor's order and retreats to the port city of Odessus (Varna) on the Black Sea Coast.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364755561#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "593", "revid": 1364755561, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 593, "year_label": "593 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Paul, father of Maurice (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364755561#Deaths", "title": "593", "revid": 1364755561, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 594, "year_label": "594 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Autumn – Emperor Maurice replaces general Priscus for disobeying orders. He installs his inexperienced brother Peter, as commander-in-chief in charge of the war against the Avars.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364756331#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "594", "revid": 1364756331, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 596, "year_label": "596 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Maurice uses the city of Marcianopolis (modern Bulgaria) as a military base of operations on the lower Danube River, against the Slavs on the Balkans.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364739187#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "596", "revid": 1364739187, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 597, "year_label": "597 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Maurice writes his last will, in which he describes his ideas for governing the Byzantine Empire (his eldest son, Theodosius, will rule the East from Constantinople, and his second son, Tiberius, the West from Rome).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364755884#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "597", "revid": 1364755884, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 598, "year_label": "598 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Maurice pays tribute to the Avars and concludes a treaty with their leader Bayan I, allowing Byzantine expeditions in Wallachia. He reorganises his army and strengthens the Long Walls (west of Constantinople).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364751875#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "598", "revid": 1364751875, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 599, "year_label": "599 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Maurice refuses to pay ransom for 12,000 Byzantine soldiers taken prisoner by the Avars. Their leader Bayan I orders the execution of the prisoners, and slaughters them all. His failure to buy back the captives destroys Maurice's popularity with the Byzantine troops in the Balkan Peninsula.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364752063#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "599", "revid": 1364752063, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 601, "year_label": "601 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Balkan Campaign: A Byzantine army under command of Peter, brother of Emperor Maurice, crosses the Danube and advances to the Tisza River, where it defeats the Avars.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364903478#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "601", "revid": 1364903478, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 602, "year_label": "602 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Maurice succeeds in winning over the Avars to Byzantine rule, but his campaigns against the Avars, Lombards, Persians and Slavs drain the imperial treasury, requiring an increase in taxes. He orders the troops to stay for winter beyond the Danube, but a mutiny breaks out under Phocas. He brings the Byzantine forces back over the Danube and marches on to Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364904263#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "602", "revid": 1364904263, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 602, "year_label": "602 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 27", "text": "November 27 – Maurice, Byzantine emperor (b. 539)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364904263#Deaths", "title": "602", "revid": 1364904263, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 605, "year_label": "605 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Phocas has Constantina, empress consort of Maurice, and her three daughters arrested. He accuses her of conspiracy, and has them executed at Chalcedon (Bithynia).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364904400#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "605", "revid": 1364904400, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}]}