Question

Justinian lost Byzantine land to invaders. False or True

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Answer

False.

Explanation

Justinian I (reigned 527–565) is best known for recovering lost Roman territories, not primarily for losing them. During his reign he reconquered large parts of the former Western Roman Empire — notably North Africa from the Vandals, much of Italy from the Ostrogoths, and parts of southern Spain. However, his long and expensive wars, plague, and overstretched resources weakened the empire, and many of those reconquered territories were lost to invaders (Lombards, Slavs, Avars, later Arabs) after his death.

So: Justinian himself mostly gained territory; the significant losses to invaders occurred in the decades and centuries following his reign.

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