Belisarius
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Flavius Belisarius was a military commander of the Byzantine Empire under Emperor Justinian I. Belisarius was instrumental in the reconquest of much of the Mediterranean territory belonging to the for
Belisarius is generally considered to be this bearded figure on the left of Emperor Justinian I in the mosaic in the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna, which celebrates the reconquest of Italy by the Roman army.
Belisarius attacking the Ostrogoths in Rome, 536, by Hermann Vogel
Belisarius, by François-André Vincent (1776). Belisarius, blinded, a beggar, is recognised by one of his former soldiers.
The outcast Belisarius receiving hospitality from a peasant by Jean-François Pierre Peyron (1779)
Sapareva Banya
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Sapareva Banya is a town in southwestern Bulgaria, part of Kyustendil Province. As Ancient Germanеia, a former bishopric, it is a Latin Catholic titular see.
Belisarius
…repulsed a Persian invasion by deceiving their commander and lifted the siege of Ariminum without a fight. Belisarius was born around 500, probably in Germaneia (modern Sapareva Banya, Bulgaria), a fortified town of which some archaeological remains still exist, within the borders of Thrace and Paeonia. He may…
View of Sapareva Banya
The medieval Orthodox St Nicholas Church in Sapareva Banya
Sapareva Banya Town-hall
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