Thrace and Greece have been inundated by the Slavs during the four-year reign of Tiberius II.
The emperor, mortally ill, possibly from purposefully poisoned food, recognizes Maurice as his successor, betroths him to Tiberius' daughter Constantina, and crowns him emperor on August 13, one day before his own death.
Magnus had died shortly before Tiberius's own death in August 582, and with Maurice's accession to the throne, Mundhir’s son Nu'man journeys to Constantinople to achieve a reconciliation with the empire.
Instead, he too is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death, quickly commuted to house arrest.
The Western Turks meanwhile begin inroads across the Danube that will take them, within fifty years, into Macedonia, Thrace, and Greece.