Greetings all,
Today we we celebrate the Emperor Maurice officially becoming the rule of the Eastern Roman Empire on August 13th in 582 AD:
Maurice was a skilled general who was victorious in the Byzantine-Sassanian war which had begun in 572 AD. He expanded Byzantine territory in the South Caucasus, and during his reign the Byzantine Empire no longer paid the Persians thousands of pounds in gold annually for peace.
Maurice was declared one of the Heroes of Byzantium Novum in April of this year.
There should be cake! :)
-Marcus Cassius Julianus
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