Feeling so threatened by pressure on the southeastern border that he took the unorthodox step of moving the imperial capital to Sicily in order to better protect Italy. He was later assassinated in his bath by a slave wielding a soap dish, after which the capital was returned to the Bosphorus.
Also known as: Constans II Pogonatus
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Feeling so threatened by pressure on the southeastern border that he took the unorthodox step of moving the imperial capital to Sicily in order to better protect Italy. He was later assassinated in his bath by a slave wielding a soap dish, after which the capital was returned to the Bosphorus.
“The Byzantine emperor Constans II felt so threatened on the southeastern border that”
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