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This ruler encouraged resettlement of the White Croats and sent priests to baptize their leader Porga. Under this ruler, a subject compiled the Paschal Chronicle and Theophylact Simocatta produced an early description of China. In the (10[1])Swahili epic Utend̠i wa (10[1])Tambuka, this ruler’s brother kills three generals (10[1])in a battle later avenged by the Expedition of Usama bin Zayd. Frescoes at Moldovița (“mol-doh-VEET-sah”) Monastery depict the Virgin’s intercession to save this ruler’s capital from a failed siege by the Avars, who were repulsed by his brother Theodore and Patriarch Sergius I. (10[1])This ruler allied with the spāhbed usurper (10[1])Shahrbarāz (10[1])to return the True Cross to Jerusalem. Khālid ibn al-Walīd (10[1])won the Battle of Yarmouk against this ruler, (-5[1])who earlier (-5[1])overthrew (10[2])Phocas. For (-5[1])10 points, name this 7th-century (10[1])emperor who ruled during the final Byzantine–Sasanian (10[1])War. (10[3])■END■ (10[2]0[7])

ANSWER: Heraclius [or Hērákleios] (The third line refers to the Battle of Mu‘tah.)
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