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year
Part of
570s
Followed by
580
Follows
578
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Commons category
579
topic's main category
Category:579
point in time
0579-01-01
category for births in this time period
Category:579 births
category for deaths in this time period
Category:579 deaths

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Encyclopedic overview

King Hormizd IV (579 – 590)

Year 579 (DLXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 579 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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