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==Legacy==

Other than his initiatives in updating the legal code for the empire, his lengthy reign was relatively devoid of achievements. Civil war was practically non-existent in the eastern empire which enjoyed internal stability, but the west slowly disintegrated under barbarian pressures. In Christian affairs, his actions were strongly influenced by presence of his sister Pulcheria who supported the Orthodox position in the Christological disputes, but in his latter years his support of the monophysitic side temporarily threw the Orthodox Christians into disarray before his death.

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