568

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Instance of: year
Part of: 560s
Followed by: 569
Follows: 567

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topic's main category: Category:568
point in time: 0568-01-01
Commons category: 568
category for births in this time period: Category:568 births
category for deaths in this time period: Category:568 deaths

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Encyclopedic overview

Year 568 (DLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 568 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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