Constantine the Great, Roman Emperor and member of Thetrarchy, from 306 to 337. He was born in Naissus, Dacia Mediterranea and according to one of his dynastic member Julian the Apostate, his family was of Thracian origin from the Moesi tribe. Thus the Constantinian dynasty was one of the Thraco-Roman dynasties.
Leo I, Eastern Roman emperor from 457 to 474, also called "Thrax" which is "Thrachian". His dynasty called Leonid were commonly referred as "The Thracian dynasty".
John Cassian, a 4th-century monk who contributed to bringing the Egyptian monastic tradition to Western Europe. Born in Scythia Minor and died near modern-day Marseilles, southern France
Justin I, Byzantine Emperor from 518 to 527, was of Thraco-Roman. He was father of Justinian the Great who was referred by John Malalas as being a Thracian.[5][6][7][8][9]
Vitalian, an East Roman general who rebelled in 513 against Emperor Anastasius I (r. 491–518). Vitalian may have been of local Thracian stock, born in Scythia Minor or in Moesia; his father bore a Latin name, Patriciolus, while two of his sons had Thracian names and one a Gothic name.[4]: 129
Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor from 527 to 565 and born in Tauresium[10] around 482.[citation needed] His Latin-speaking peasant family was of Thraco-Roman origin as John Malalas writes.[11][12][13]
Belisarius, a general during the reign of Justinian I. He was born in Germane (nowadays Sapareva Banya) in Western Thrace or in Germania in Dacia Mediterranea, possibly of Thraco-Roman or Greek origin. Commanded several campaigns for reconquering Mediterranean territory of the former Western Roman Empire. He also earned the title "Last of the Romans"
Justin II, nephew of Justinian and Eastern Roman Emperor from 565 to 578. He was a member of the Justinianian dynasty, which are one of the Thraco-Roman dynasties.
(in Romanian) Sorin Olteanu, The administrative organisation of the Balkan provinces in the 6th century AD
(in English) Stelian Brezeanu: Toponymy and ethnic Realities at the Lower Danube in the 10th Century. “The deserted Cities" in Constantine Porphyrogenitus' De administrando imperio
(in English) Kelley L. Ross The Vlach Connection and Further Reflections on Roman History
Notes
^Soustal (1991), pp. 59–60
^Dimitŭr Nikolov, "The Thraco-Roman Villa Rustica near Chatalka, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria", British Archaeological Reports, 1976
^Second Meeting of the Expert Working Group: The 50 Most Attractive Tourist Sites in the Cross Border Region of Dobrudzha, http://www.dobrudzhatour.net/resources/72/doc_1333365852.pdf
^ a bPatrick Amory, People and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489–554, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
^Russu, Ion I. (1976). Elementele traco-getice în Imperiul Roman și în Byzantium (in Romanian). Vol. veacurile III-VII. Editura Academiei R. S. România. p. 95.
^Iv Velkov, Velizar (1977). Cities in Thrace and Dacia in Late Antiquity: (studies and Materials). University of Michigan. p. 47.
^Browning, Robert (2003). Justinian and Theodora. Gorgias Press LLC. p. 23. ISBN 1-59333-053-7.
^Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald (2006). Greek Literature in Late Antiquity. Ashgate Publishing. p. 166. ISBN 0-7546-5683-7.
^Norwich, John Julius (1997). A Short History of Byzantium. Vintage Books. p. 59. ISBN 0-679-77269-3.
^Justinian referred to Latin as being his native tongue in several of his laws. See Moorhead (1994), p. 18.
^The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian by Michael Maas
^Justinian and Theodora Robert Browning, Gorgias Press LLC, 2003, ISBN 1-59333-053-7, p. 23.
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