Artemius Anastasius (Greek: Ἀρτέμιος Ἀναστάσιος Β΄) known in English as Anastasios II or Anastasius II (died 719) was the Byzantine Emperor from 713 to 715.Anastasios was originally named Artemios (Ἀρτέμιος) and had served as a bureaucrat and Imperial secretary for his predecessors. After the Opsikian army in Thrace had overthrown Emperor Philippicus they acclaimed Artemius as Emperor. He chose Anastasius as his regnal name.
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