Lombard Conquest of Italy
At a glance:
- Series: Chronology of European History
- Categories: Military History, Land Acquisition and Expansion, Territory Redistribution
- Subcategories: Kings, Queens, Kingdoms, Monarchy, Empires, Dynasties, Invasions, Raids, Conquests, Sieges, Byzantine Empire
- Curriculum: Italian History, Medieval History/Middle Ages
- Geographical Location: Italy
- Date: 568-571
Article abstract: The Lombard conquest of Italy makes the Byzantine reconquest ephemeral and underlines the permanent political separation of the eastern and western halves of what had once been the Roman Empire.
Summary of Event
From 535 to 552, Italy had been ravaged by the war between the Byzantine (East Roman) army, which was trying to reconquer the Italy lost by the Roman Empire in 476, and the Ostrogothic tribal leadership, which had dominated Italy for the previous sixty years. The Byzantine army, commanded by the aged Armenian eunuch Narses, had...
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