Editing 540s

{{short description|Decade}}
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The '''540s''' decade ran from January 1, 540, to December 31, 549.

{{Events by year for decade|54}}

==Significant people==
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*[[Totila]]
*[[Pope Gregory I]]
*[[Abu Quhafa]]

{{Births and deaths by year for decade|54}}

==References==
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;Bibliography
*{{cite book|last=Bury|first=John Bagnell|author-link=John Bagnell Bury|title=History of the Later Roman Empire: From Arcadius to Irene (395 A.D. to 800 A.D.)|volume=II|location=New York, New York and London, United Kingdom|publisher=Macmillan & Company Limited|year=1923|orig-year=1889|url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/BURLAT/home.html}}
* {{cite book |last=Bury |first=John Bagnell |author-link=J. B. Bury |title=History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian, Volume 2 |location=Mineola, New York |publisher=Dover Publications, Inc. |year=1958 |isbn=0-486-20399-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JxWifqqPtUcC}}
*{{Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium}}
* {{cite book |editor1-last=Martindale |editor1-first=John Robert |editor2-last=Jones |editor2-first=Arnold Hugh Martin |editor3-last=Morris |editor3-first=J. |title=The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Volume III: A.D. 527–641|year=1992|location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-20160-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ElkwedRWCXkC}}
*{{cite book|last=Pringle|first=Denys|title=The Defence of Byzantine Africa from Justinian to the Arab Conquest: An Account of the Military History and Archaeology of the African Provinces in the Sixth and Seventh Century|location=Oxford, United Kingdom|publisher=British Archaeological Reports|year=1981|isbn=0-86054-119-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4DIjAQAAIAAJ}}

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