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Gothic War

The Gothic War between the Byzantine Empire during the reign of Emperor Justinian I and the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy took place from 535 until 554 in the Italian peninsula, Dalmatia, Sardinia, Sicily and Corsica. The war had its roots in the ambition of the East Roman Emperor Justinian I to recover the provinces of the former Western Roman Empire, which the Romans had lost to invading barbarian tribes in the previous century (the Migration Period).

The war followed the Byzantine reconquest of the province of Africa from the Vandals. Historians commonly divide the war into two phases:

  • From 535 to 540: ending with the fall of the Ostrogothic capital Ravenna and the apparent reconquest of Italy by the Byzantines.
  • From 540/541 to 553: a Gothic revival under Totila, suppressed only after a long struggle by the Byzantine general Narses, who also repelled an invasion in 554 by the Franks and Alamanni.

In 554 Justinian promulgated the Pragmatic sanction which prescribed Italy's new government. Several cities in northern Italy held out against the Byzantines until 562. By the end of the war Italy had been devastated and depopulated. The Byzantines found themselves incapable of resisting an invasion by the Lombards in 568, which resulted in Constantinople permanently losing control over large parts of the Italian peninsula.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_War_(535%E2%80%93554)

Articles
Title Author Hits
MK02 Casilinum (Capua) (554 AD) Michal Kowalczuk 1478
GI07 Battle of Mugellum 542AD Giulio Bottazzi 2485
GI06 Open Battle at the Siege of Rome 537AD Giulio Bottazzi 2496
GI05 Battle of Mons Lactarius 552AD Giulio Bottazzi 2456
GI04 Battle of Faventia 542 AD Giulio Bottazzi 2258
GI03 Battle of the Volturnus 554 AD Giulio Bottazzi 2742
GI02 Battle of Taginae 552 AD Giulio Bottazzi 2706
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