The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" id="mwGw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine</a> emperor <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippikos_Bardanes" id="mwHA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Philippikos Bardanes">Philippicus</a> is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_mutilation_in_Byzantine_culture" id="mwHQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Political mutilation in Byzantine culture">blinded</a>, deposed and sent into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exile" id="mwHg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Exile">exile</a> by conspirators of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opsikion" id="mwHw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Opsikion">Opsikion</a> army in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrace" id="mwIA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Thrace">Thrace</a>. He is succeeded by <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasios_II" id="mwIQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Anastasios II">Anastasios II</a>, who begins the reorganization of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_army" id="mwIg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Byzantine army">Byzantine army</a>.<sup about="#mwt20" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"}}' id="cite_ref-2" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./June_3#cite_note-2" id="mwIw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwJA">[2]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"><cite about="#mwt17" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFOliver_Nicholson2018">Oliver Nicholson (19 April 2018). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=A09WDwAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA1185" id="mwBg4" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBg8">The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity</i></a>. OUP Oxford. p.<span id="mwBhA" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>1185. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBhE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBhI" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-19-256246-3" id="mwBhM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-256246-3"><bdi id="mwBhQ">978-0-19-256246-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt17" class="Z3988" id="mwBhU" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Oxford+Dictionary+of+Late+Antiquity&amp;rft.pages=1185&amp;rft.pub=OUP+Oxford&amp;rft.date=2018-04-19&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-19-256246-3&amp;rft.au=Oliver+Nicholson&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DA09WDwAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA1185&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJune+3"></span></span>