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The Nika riots (Greek: Στάσις τοῦ Νίκα, romanized: Stásis toû Níka), Nika revolt or Nika sedition took place against Byzantine emperor Justinian I in Constantinople...

universally popular; early in his reign he nearly lost his throne during the Nika riots, and a conspiracy against the emperor's life by dissatisfied entrepreneurs...

major rebellion of 532, known as the "Nika" riots (from the battle-cry of "Conquer!" of those involved). The Nika Riots began in the Hippodrome and finished...

factions; and the execution of rioters: 49  led to great anger among the population, culminating in the Nika riots of 532. The riots were led by the chariot...

so Narses became a patrician, too. Narses had a part in quashing the Nika riots in 532; he was instructed by Justinian or Theodora to take sufficient...

Swedish car racing team AS Nika, a football club in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo List of storms named Nika Nika riots, riots that took place over...

to be unresponsive to their demands, the angry factions united chanting "Nika", meaning "conquer". Justinian recognized the danger of these factions uniting...

weapons are used to violently suppress a protest or riot, as in the Tbilisi Massacre, Nika Riots in the Roman Empire, Boston Massacre, Haymarket Massacre...

the reign of Justin I, and was chosen by the mob as emperor during the Nika riots in Constantinople against Justinian I and executed shortly thereafter...

same name to occupy the site, as the prior one had been destroyed in the Nika riots. As the episcopal see of the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, it...

but due to its location, it was severely damaged by earthquakes and the Nika riots, and required repair several times. The Hagia Irene is defined by its...

Heruli happened to be in Constantinople when the Nika riots broke out; he successfully suppressed the riots with Belisarius, with his troops massacring many...

associated chariot-racing team in the Byzantine empire; involved in the deadly Nika riots of 532 Maccabi Haifa F.C., nicknamed The Greens. Greens (disambiguation)...

next appears during the Nika riots in 532, where he, along with Mundus and Basilides, served as envoys of Justinian to the rioting crowds. They partly attempted...

magister officiorum and quaestor sacri palatii, but at the beginning of the Nika riots he was forced to dismiss him on charges made by his enemies. Tribonian...

and sometimes riots, which amounted to civil wars that broke out in the city between them. The most severe of these was the Nika riots of 532, in which...

indiscriminate slaughter of Byzantine citizenry by the military in the Nika riots. Thereafter, rising costs and a failing economy saw the gradual decline...

that was later reconstructed and enlarged by Emperor Justinian after the Nika riots of 532, which devastated the city. Historical texts claim that 7,000 slaves...

became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. January 11 – Nika riots in Constantinople: Anger among the supporters of the most important chariot...

chronological list of known riots. 205–186 – BC The great revolt of Egypt against Ptolemy V Epiphanes. 48 BC – 47 BC – Riots during the Siege of Alexandria...