Heraclian dynasty Հերակլյան դինաստիա Ηράκλεια δυναστεία
610–711
Labarum (military standard)
The Heraclian dynasty under Heraclius, 626
Capital	Constantinople
Common languages	Greek (official) Armenian[a][1]
Religion	Christianity (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Government	Monarchy
Emperor
• 610–641	Heraclius (first)
• 685–695; 705–711	Justinian II (last)
History
• Establishment	610
• Disestablished	711

The Heraclian dynasty, (Armenian: դինաստիա; Greek: Ηράκλεια δυναστεία) ruled Byzantine Empire between 610–711 years. The Heraclians presided over a period of cataclysmic events that were a watershed in the history of the Empire and the world.

Heraclius, the founder of his dynasty, was of speculative, yet not confirmed Armenian origin.

• Runciman, Steven (1987). A History of the Crusades. Cambridge University Press. pp. 10. ISBN 978-0-521-34770-9. In 610 Phocas was displaced by a young nobleman of Armenian descent, Heraclius, son of the governor of Africa.
• Treadgold, Warren T. (1997). A History of the Byzantine State and Society. Stanford University Press. pp. 287. ISBN 9780804726306. Heraclius [...] his family were Armenians from Cappadocia (...)
• Geanakoplos, Deno J. (1984). Byzantium: Church, Society, and Civilization Seen Through Contemporary Eyes. University of Chicago Press. p. 344. ISBN 9780226284606. Some of the greatest Byzantine emperors — Nicephorus Phocas, John Tzimisces and probably Heraclius — were of Armenian descent.
• Kaegi, Walter Emil (2003). Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium. Cambridge University Press. pp. 21. ISBN 978-0-521-81459-1. Heraclius the Younger was born son of Heraclius the Elder and Epiphania ca. 575, and was probably of Armenian descent (...)
• Roberts, John Morris (1997). A Short History of the World. Oxford University Press. pp. 161. ISBN 978-0-19-511504-8. Heraclius, Armenian by descent, had come to the throne a few years earlier and now revealed his quality.