Editing Justinian I (section)

====War with the Sassanid Empire, 527–532====
{{Main|Iberian War}}
From his uncle, Justinian inherited ongoing hostilities with the [[Sassanid Empire]].<ref>See Geoffrey Greatrex, "Byzantium and the East in the Sixth Century" in Michael Maas (ed.). ''Age of Justinian'' (2005), pp. 477–509.</ref> In 530 the Persian forces suffered a double defeat at [[Battle of Dara|Dara]] and [[Battle of Satala (530)|Satala]], but the next year saw the defeat of Roman forces under Belisarius near [[Battle of Callinicum|Callinicum]].<ref name="gold"/> Justinian then tried to make alliance with the [[Axumites]] of Ethiopia and the [[Himyarites]] of Yemen against the Persians, but this failed.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=Sidney |title=Events in Arabia in the 6th Century A.D. |journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London |date=1954 |volume=16 |issue=3 |pages=425–468 |jstor=608617 |doi=10.1017/S0041977X00086791 |s2cid=163004552 }}</ref> When king [[Kavadh I of Persia]] died (September 531), Justinian concluded an "[[Eternal Peace (532)|Eternal Peace]]" (which cost him 11,000 pounds of gold)<ref name="gold">J. Norwich, ''Byzantium: The Early Centuries'', p. 195.</ref> with his successor [[Khosrau I]] (532). Having thus secured his eastern frontier, Justinian turned his attention to the West, where [[Germanic peoples|Germanic]] kingdoms had been established in the territories of the former [[Western Roman Empire]].<ref name="Procopius-Dewing">Procopius, ''De Bellus'' III.9.5. Translated by H.B. Dewing, ''Procopius'' (Cambridge: Loeb Classical Library, 1979), vol. 2 p. 85</ref>