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orig. Tarasicodissa
born , Isauria, Diocese of the East
died April 9, AD 491
Eastern Roman emperor (474–491).
A military leader, he married the daughter of Emperor Leo I (с 466), and their son reigned briefly as Leo II (474). On the boy's early death, Zeno became emperor. Obliged to flee to Isauria to escape a coup d'état, he returned to Constantinople in 476. He made peace with the Vandal s in Africa, put down a rebellion in Asia Minor (484), and persuaded the Ostrogoth s to leave the Eastern Empire by making Theodoric king of Italy (489). Seeking to reconcile orthodox Christians and
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