Mertcan Bulak: After the decades of inconclusive warfare which followed Justinian’s invasion of Italy, Rome was a ghost of its former self. Its population had dropped to around 50,000. It was a city perched on the far edge of an empire whose fate was being decided, over 1,600 miles to the east, in a relentless, losing war with the King of Kings of Persia.

After the decades of inconclusive warfare which followed Justinian’s invasion of Italy, Rome was a ghost of its former self. Its population had dropped to around 50,000. It was a city perched on the far edge of an empire whose fate was being decided, over 1,600 miles to the east, in a relentless, losing war with the King of Kings of Persia.

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