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birth
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when she was married sheTheodora proved herself a worthy and able leader during the Nika riots. There were two rival political factions in the Empire, the Blues and the Greens, which started a riot stemming from many grievances in January 532, during a ch
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532
During the Nika Riot (532) her vigorous encouragement prevented JustinianI from fleeing the capital.
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was the celebrated wife of the Byzantine emperor JustinianI
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Theodora died of an unspecified cancer on 28 June 548 before the age of 50, 17 years before JustinianI