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Justinian I reconquered several lands lost by the Western Roman Empire. He defeated the Vandals in Africa (retaking this area) the Ostrogoths, retaking Italy, Sicily and Dalmatia (on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea) and the Visigoths in Spain, retaking southern Spain. This was part of his ambition for 'restoration of the empire.' and gave him control of the western Mediterranean. The large revenues the conquests generated helped him with an ambitious programme of church building. He rebuilt the famous Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.

Justinian also commissioned the Corpus Juri Civili (Body of Civil law) which was later called the Justinian Code. This was a digest of centuries of Roman civil law and gave a uniform organisation to this law which is still the basis of civil law in many modern countries.

Justinian's rule is seen as an age of splendour and a distinct epoch in the history of the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire.

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