Byzantine Empire under the Heraclian dynasty

The so-called Herakleische dynasty set 610-695 and 705-711, the emperor in the Byzantine Empire and some Exarch of Carthage and Ravenna. The first recorded members of this dynasty was possibly originally from Armenia commander Heraclius the Elder, who began his career in the penultimate Roman- Persian War and later as Exarch of Carthage the usurper Phocas crashed. The last representative of the dynasty was Tiberius, son and heir of Justinian II, who was murdered in 711 at the age of six years. The dynasty made ​​the transition from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, the final converted the former Eastern Roman Empire into an embossed Greek empire and was associated with the loss of 75 % of the dominion. Formative events were the Islamic expansion, which could be brought to a halt at the Taurus in Asia Minor and the conquest of the Slavs in the Balkans, the consequences were mitigated by a forced relocation, as well as the incidence of the Proto-Bulgarians.

• Herakleische Dynasty