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Emperor Justinian died in 565 before the futility of his western policies was fully revealed, but signs of insuperable strain in maintaining them had arisen even prior to his death. Already Avar and Slavic forces had penetrated the Balkan possessions of the Eastern Empire, in a prelude to the inundations that followed over the next 150 years.
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© 2001 Dennis P. Hupchick and Harold E. Cox
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Hupchick, D.P., Cox, H.E. (2001). Slavic and Turkic Invasions, 6th–8th Centuries. In: The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-04817-2_8
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