Stelle Constans Augustus, qui rem publicam...; (Chronica Byzantina-Arabica (741 - 743), Chroniques Anni 741, 2018 (Gil, ed.), §25 (p. 316)) [5623]

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Keywords	Name: Constantinus (Constans II), [wurzel: Constantin] Ethnonym: Romani, [wurzel: roman] Region: Sicilia (Sicily), [wurzel: Sicili] Region: Syracuse, [wurzel: Syracus*]
ID	5623
Text	Chronica Byzantina-Arabica (741 - 743) Anonymous - History
Quotation	Constans Augustus, qui rem publicam fomitibus procurabat, apud Syracusam, Sicilie inclitam urbem, ministrorum coniuratione peremptus est, peractis XXVII imperii sui annis. Sed Constantinus, maior natorum eius, administrandi sollicitudinem Romani suscepit imperii.
Translation	Constans the Augustus, who ran through the state in kindling of fire, was killed at the renowned city of Syracuse in Sicily by a plot of his ministers, having ruled for 27 years. But Constantinus the elder of his sons undertook the care of administering the Roman empire. (Al-Tamimi, trans., “Byzantine-Arabic Chronicle”, 2019)
Summary	Here the Chronica Byzantina Arabica recounts the death of Emperor Constans the II and that his son, Constantine the IV succeeded him as emperor.
Quotation source	Chroniques Anni 741, 2018 (Gil, ed.), §25 (p. 316)
Temporal Coverage	656 - 680
Associated use case(s)	An Iberian View on the Early Muslim Conquests. Byzantium, the Arabs, and Hispania in the First Christian-Iberian Chronicles After the Fall of the Visigothic Kingdom
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