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Events

The empire of Justinian I after the defeat of the Ostrogoth empire

• before 550 : Formation of the Bavarian tribe south-east of the Danube and Lech , who presumably partly immigrate from Bohemia ; they come under the control of the Franconian Empire .
• around 550: The Toltec empire under a priest-king comes into being in Mexico .
• 552 : The Eastern Roman general Narses can decisively defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy after a long war. In 554 the country is administratively reintegrated into the Roman Empire .
• 553 : Second Council of Constantinople (5th Ecumenical Council).
• around 555 : Eastern Roman monks smuggle silkworms to Europe, making the production of silk possible here for the first time .

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