Emperor Herakleios of Byzantine Empire

was a Byzantine Emperor. who ruled the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantine Empire. He was in power for over thirty years, from October 5, 610 to February 11, 641 and was the responsible for abandoning the use of Latin in favour of the Greek language in official documents, further Hellenising the Empire. His rise to power began in 608, when he and his father, the viceregal Exarch of Africa, successfully led a revolt against the unpopular usurper Phocas.

Heraclius' reign was marked by several military campaigns. Even when he seized power from Phocas he immediately had to fight the invasion of the Empire by the Sassanians who were ruled by the Persian king Khosrau Parvez. The first battles of the campaign ended in defeat and the Persian army fought their way to the gate of Constantinople. However protected by a strong navy and impenetrable walls Heraclius was able to avoid total defeat and set upon a campaign to rebuild and reform the military. In 622 he left the capital at the head of a new stronger army and was able over a number of years to crush the Persians ending what had been an on and off conflict for over 800 years.

After his victory over the Sassanid Empire he faced a new threat with the rising power of Islam uniting the Arab tribes. He was the first Emperor to engage the Muslims

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[IOANNIS2]

the most successful greek emperor against the Persian -sasanids

[Frilleger31]

@IOANNIS2 True..

[lovepeacebringsmiles]

the title of the song???

[tektamos]

@elgostine That had to do with religion, religion and faith always was something not Greek. Greeks we used to found the truth in any mater by philosophy. Believes, faith was something new. Manzikert was a battle lost because of the "war" between the Ethnic Greeks and Christians Greeks. Matzikert began as a vicotry and ends the last hour as a defeat because the half army didnt follow the Emperor.

[elgostine]

@tektamos what also annoys me is that period of destruction, iconoclastic policies, the banning of the ancient philisophical schools, and religous persecutions juring the reign of justinian i see as a bit of a low point, not to mention we were in freefall pretty much after manzikert.

[tektamos]

@elgostine I AGREE Greece never was a magical wonderland ... but on this planet as Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche said : "Never so few people gave so many to civilization and humanity and been hated and hunted so much".

[tektamos]

@elgostine Υου are right, I never been good in german ... its Schlieman he found 6 troy. from 6000 to 1150 and we cant be sure which of all destroy from Agamemnon. 5 times rebuilded. Special from 700AD the Greeks we are VERY pround. Cause before except Julian, all emperors were most like Romans than Byzantines. After Mavricius the west Roman empire starts to look like pure Greek.

[elgostine]

@tektamos those names together yielded no resultsive found doerpsfeld.

are you sure you dont mean hienrich Schliemann? as in the man who discovered troy

whats slemans first name? im having trouble finding him.

ill be honest in the midst of this arguement ive forgotten exactly what point i was trying to make

but i think it was that greece isnt this magical wonderland without decline. or stagnation

the byzantines had a period of brief, ill admit, stagnation i think it was around 700 AD

[tektamos]

@elgostine Those names my friend are the archeologists who found everything we know about Mycenaean Greece. The Germans Doerpfeld & Sleman . YES YES i know the linar B, A, ideogrammatic before , syllabic, alphabet ... I am GREEK my friend.Please help me out here ... i can't see your point here. About what are we talking about ? Alphabet used since the first vowel we have found. And that found 5250 BC in a island called Yura in Sporades islands. (Mama mia islands from the movie).

[tektamos]

@elgostine There is no dark ages in Greek history... because there are no ages were Greeks put people one fire , destroy any civilize progress, been lawless.... hello these are dark ages data. And that data never exist in Greek History. Dark ages are a privilege of central north Europe. i AM NOT SAY ABOUT gregorian or Julian calenders. Both made by Greeks (Aristarchus & Lilius). 1200-900 is the end of mycenaean influence. The acme is in 3000 bc.

[elgostine]

@tektamos more importantly either those researchers are SUPER obscure, or you typed the names wrong. i cannot find anything on their names.

linear B was the tandard script of the myceneans when was the discovery of an alphabet used by the mycenean ruling class.

[elgostine]

@tektamos

1200-900BC is gregorian calender of COURSE its not greek or roman,

one page? i have books purely on greece, more general greek.

changed? to a simpler style? they didnt advance, they regressed, what happened to their palaces, their cyclopian walls, theres no massive stneworks from that period of 300 years as far as i know.

the point is there have ben dark ages before. and there will be more.