Gothic War (535–554)
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The Gothic War between the Eastern Roman Empire during the reign of Emperor Justinian I and the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy took place from 535 to 554 in the Italian Peninsula, Dalmatia, Sardinia, Si
The Porta Asinaria, through which the Byzantine army entered Rome
Belisarius attacking the Ostrogoths in Rome, 536, by Hermann Vogel
Witigis in the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493
Belisarius refusing the crown of Italy offered by the Goths in 540
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
Gothic War (535–554)
…from the Vandals. Historians commonly divide the war into two phases. The first phase starts in 535 with the reconquest of Italy by the Byzantines with Belisarius as the commander-in-chief and ends with the fall of the Ostrogothic capital Ravenna in 540. The second phase, which lasted from 540/541 to 553, featured…
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, 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)