Editing 599

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[[File:Palenque 8.jpg|upright=1.35|thumb|The [[Maya city]] of [[Palenque]] (modern [[Mexico]])]]
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Year '''599''' ('''[[Roman numerals|DXCIX]]''') was a [[common year starting on Thursday]] of the [[Julian calendar]]. The denomination 599 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [[Anno Domini]] [[calendar era]] became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

== Events ==
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=== By place ===

==== Byzantine Empire ====
* Emperor [[Maurice (emperor)|Maurice]] refuses to pay [[ransom]] for 12,000 [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] soldiers taken prisoner by the [[Avars (Carpathians)|Avars]]. Their leader [[Bayan I]] orders the execution of the prisoners, and slaughters them all. His failure to buy back the captives destroys Maurice's popularity with the Byzantine troops in the [[Balkans|Balkan Peninsula]].<ref>{{The Early Medieval Balkans|page= 32}}</ref>
* Summer &ndash; [[Maurice's Balkan campaigns#Renewed campaigns, 597–602|Balkan Campaign]]: The Byzantine generals [[Priscus (magister militum)|Priscus]] and [[Comentiolus]] join their forces at [[Singidunum]] (modern [[Belgrade]]), and move downstream to the fortress city of [[Viminacium]] ([[Serbia]]). The [[Byzantine Greeks|Byzantines]] cross the [[Danube|Danube River]] and invade [[Moesia|Upper Moesia]], where they defeat the Avars in [[Battles of Viminacium|open battle]]. 
* Priscus pursues the fleeing Avar tribes and invades their homeland in [[Pannonia (Roman province)|Pannonia]]. He devastates the land east of the [[Tisza|Tisza River]], deciding the war for the Byzantines and ending the Avar and [[Slavs|Slavic]] incursions across the Danube. 
* Autumn &ndash; Comentiolus reopens the [[Gate of Trajan]] pass, near [[Ihtiman]] ([[Bulgaria]]). This strategic mountain pass, whose fortress ''"Stipon"'' defends the border between the provinces [[Thrace]] and [[Macedonia (Roman province)|Macedonia]], is not used for decades.

==== Europe ====
* [[Callinicus (exarch)|Callinicus]], governor (''[[exarch]]'') of [[Ravenna]], repulses attacks of the [[South Slavs]] in [[Istria]] ([[Croatia]]). The region is [[Looting|pillaged]], but the Byzantines drive them all out. 
* Callinicus breaks the truce by kidnapping the [[Lombards|Lombard]] daughter of King [[Agilulf]],<ref>Paul the Deacon, ''History'', 4.20; translated by Foulke, p. 165</ref> beginning a war with the [[Exarchate of Ravenna]] (approximate date).

==== Britain ====

* [[Rædwald of East Anglia|Rædwald]] becomes king (''[[bretwalda]]'') of [[Kingdom of East Anglia|East Anglia]] ([[East of England]]), under the overlordship of [[Æthelberht of Kent]] (according to the ''[[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]'').

==== Persia ====
* King [[Khosrau II]] sends a [[Sassanid Empire|Persian]] expedition to [[South Arabia]] and conquers [[Yemen]]. He establishes a military base to control the [[Trade|sea trade]] with the East (approximate date).

==== Asia ====
* [[Tardu]] declares himself to be ruler (''[[khagan]]'') of the united [[Göktürks|Turkic Khaganate]] (east and west).<ref>Melek Tekin: ''Türk tarihi'', p. 87, Milliyet yayinları, 1991</ref> His new status is not recognised widely in the empire.
* [[Beop of Baekje|Beop]] becomes king of the Korean kingdom of [[Baekje]].<ref name=met599>{{cite web |title=List of Rulers of Korea |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/koru/hd_koru.htm |website=www.metmuseum.org |access-date=21 April 2019}}</ref>

==== Mesoamerica ====
* The [[Maya civilization|Maya]] city of [[Palenque]] (southern [[Mexico]]) is plundered by King [[Scroll Serpent]] of [[Calakmul]] (approximate date).

=== By topic ===

==== Religion ====
* [[Venantius Fortunatus]], Latin [[Poetry|poet]] and [[hymn]]odist in the [[Merovingian dynasty|Merovingian]] court, is appointed [[bishop]] of [[Poitiers]].
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== Births ==
* [[January 23]] &ndash; [[Emperor Taizong of Tang|Tai Zong]], emperor of the [[Tang dynasty]] (d. [[649]])

== Deaths ==
* [[Anastasius I of Antioch|Anastasius I]], [[patriarch of Antioch]]
* [[Hye of Baekje|Hye]], king of [[Baekje]] ([[Three Kingdoms of Korea|Korea]])<ref name=met599 />
* [[Taliesin]], [[Britons (Celtic people)|Brythonic]] poet (approximate date)
* [[Tulan Qaghan]], ruler (''[[khagan]]'') of the [[Göktürks]]

== References ==
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