Twenty Years' Anarchy
Byzantine Empire | |||||||||
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| 695–717 | |||||||||
The Byzantine Empire by the end of the Twenty Years' Anarchy in 717 AD. | |||||||||
| Capital | Constantinople | ||||||||
| Common languages | Greek Latin | ||||||||
| Religion | Chalcedonian Christianity | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
| Emperor | |||||||||
• 695–698 | Leontius | ||||||||
• 698–705 | Tiberius III | ||||||||
• 705–711 | Justinian II (restored; second term) | ||||||||
• 711–713 | Philippicus | ||||||||
• 713–715 | Anastasius II | ||||||||
• 715–717 | Theodosius III | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• First deposition of Justinian II | 695 | ||||||||
• Deposition of Theodosius III | 717 | ||||||||
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The Twenty Years' Anarchy is a historiographic term used by some modern scholars for the period of acute internal instability in the Byzantine Empire, marked by the rapid succession of several emperors to the throne. It began with the first deposition of Justinian II in 695 and ended in 717, when Leo III the Isaurian took power and inaugurated the Isaurian dynasty.