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Flavius Belisarius (505-565) was one of the greatest generals of the Byzantine Empire and one of the greatest generals in history. Belisarius is not particularly well known today (certainly nowhere as near as well-known as Julius Caesar, or Alexander the Great), but this is due more to a lack of attention to Byzantine history than to his skill and accomplishments, which were matched by few, if any, military commanders. Belisarius - Early life and career. Belisarius was probably born in Germane or ...

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The Vandals were an East Germanic tribe that entered the late Roman Empire during the 5th century and created a state in North Africa, centered on the city of Carthage. The Vandals may have given their name to the province of Andalusia (originally, Vandalusia, then Arabic Al-Andalus), in the south of Spain, where they temporarily settled before pushing on to Africa. The Goth Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths and regent of the Visigoths, was allied by marriage with the Vandals, as well as with the Burgund ...

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Events September 22 - Pope Boniface II is elected to succeed Pope Felix IV December 15 - Justinian selects a second commission to excerpt and codify the writings of the jurists on Roman Law. This becomes the Digest. Tribonian becomes quaestor. Belisarius defeats the Sassanids at Dara. Hilderic, king of Vandals and Alans, deposed by his cousin Gelimer Northern Wei Chang Guang Wang succeeds Northern Wei Xiao Zhuang Di as ruler of the Chinese Northe ...

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Events August 13 - John succeeds Hormisdas as Pope. Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius writes the Consolations of philosophy. Leptis Magna is sacked by Berber raiders. Hilderic becomes king of the Vandals. Justinian, later Byzantine emperor, marries Theodora. Seong becomes king of Baekje. Births Deaths February 1 - Brigid of Ireland (Saint) August 6 - Pope Hormisdas October 24 - St. Aretas, leader o ...

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The Vandals were divided in two tribal groups, the Silingi and the Hasdingi. The Silingi lived in an area recorded for centuries as Magna Germania, now Silesia. In the 2nd century, the Hasdingi, led by the kings Raus and Rapt (or Rhaus and Raptus) moved south, and first attacked the Romans in the lower Danube area, then made peace and settled in western Dacia (Romania) and Roman Hungary. In 400 or 401, possibly because of attacks by the Huns, the Vandals along with their allies, (the Sarmatian Alans and Germanic Suebians), star ...

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Belisarius was featured in several works of art before the 20th century. The oldest of them is the historical treatise by his very own secretary, Procopius, the Anecdota, commonly referred to as the Arcana Historia or Secret History, it is an extended attack on Belisarius and Antonia, indicting him as a love-blind fool and his wife as unfaithful and duplicitous. Later works include the 17th century poem by Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, Beliar, the John Oldmixon drama The life and history of Belisarius, who conq ...

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The Vandals were first identified with Przeworsk culture in the 19th century [citation needed]. Controversy surrounds potential connections between the Vandals and another possibly Germanic tribe, the Lugii (Lygier, Lugier or Lygians). Some academics believe that either Lugii was an earlier name of the Vandals, or the Vandals were part of the Lugian federation. Similarity of names have suggested homelands for the Vandals in Norway (Hallingdal) Sweden (Vendel) or Denmark (Vendsyssel). The Vandals are assumed to have c ...

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Vandals, Vandals - Origins, Vandals - History, Vandals - Gaul, Vandals - Iberia, Vandals - Africa, Vandals - Sack of Rome, Vandals - Decline, Vandals - List of kings, Vandals - Vandalic language, Vandals - Modern heritage

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The retirement of Belisarius came to an end in 559, when an army of Slavs and Bulgars crossed the Danube River to invade Byzantine territory for the first time and threatened Constantinople itself. Justinian recalled Belisarius to command the Byzantine army against the Bulgar invasion. In his last, successful, campaign, Belisarius defeated the Bulgars and drove them back across the river. In 562, Belisarius stood trial in Constantinople on a charge of corruption. The charge was likely trumped-up, and modern research suggests that his ...

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Belisarius, Belisarius - Early life and career, Belisarius - Campaigns against the Vandals, Belisarius - Campaigns against the Ostrogoths, Belisarius - His later life and campaigns, Belisarius - The legend of Belisarius as a blind beggar, Belisarius - Belisarius in fiction, Belisarius - Named after him

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Belisarius was probably born in Germane or Germania, a city that once stood on the site of present day Sapareva Banya in south-west Bulgaria. Some suggest that he was of Romanized Slavic ancestry, on the grounds that his name is somewhat similar to the Slavic "Beli Tsar" ("White Prince"), but most contemporary historians disregard this theory as the word tsar was first used in the 10th century, well after Belisarius' death. He became a Byzantine soldier as a young man, serving in the bodyguard of the Emperor Justin I. Fo ...

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Belisarius, Belisarius - Early life and career, Belisarius - Campaigns against the Vandals, Belisarius - Campaigns against the Ostrogoths, Belisarius - His later life and campaigns, Belisarius - The legend of Belisarius as a blind beggar, Belisarius - Belisarius in fiction, Belisarius - Named after him

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For his efforts, Belisarius was rewarded by Justinian with the command of a great land and sea expedition against the kingdom of the Vandals, mounted in 533-534. The Byzantines had both political, religious, and strategic reasons for mounting such a campaign. The pro-Byzantine Vandal king Hilderic had been deposed and murdered by the usurper Gelimer, giving Justinian a legal pretext for mounting an expedition. Furthermore, the Arian Vandals had periodically persecuted the Chalcedonian Christians within their kingdom, many of whom made their ...

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Belisarius, Belisarius - Early life and career, Belisarius - Campaigns against the Vandals, Belisarius - Campaigns against the Ostrogoths, Belisarius - His later life and campaigns, Belisarius - The legend of Belisarius as a blind beggar, Belisarius - Belisarius in fiction, Belisarius - Named after him

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Justinian now resolved to restore as much of the Western Roman Empire as he could. In 535, he commissioned Belisarius to attack the Ostrogoths. Again, he chose well, as Belisarius quickly captured Sicily and then crossed into Italy proper, where he captured Naples and Rome in 536. The following year, he successfully defended Rome against the Goths and moved north to take Mediolanum (Milan) and the Ostrogoth capital of Ravenna in 540, where the Goth king Witiges was captured. Shortly prior to the taking of Ravenna, the Ostrogoths offered to m ...

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Belisarius, Belisarius - Early life and career, Belisarius - Campaigns against the Vandals, Belisarius - Campaigns against the Ostrogoths, Belisarius - His later life and campaigns, Belisarius - The legend of Belisarius as a blind beggar, Belisarius - Belisarius in fiction, Belisarius - Named after him

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According to a story that gained popularity during the Middle Ages, Justinian is said to have ordered Belisarius' eyes to be put out, and reduced him to the status of homeless beggar condemned to asking passers-by to "give an obolus to Belisarius" (date obolum Belisario), before pardoning him. Most modern scholars believe the story to be apocryphal, though Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl of Stanhope, a 19th century British philologist who wrote Life of Belisarius--the only exhaustive biography of the great general--believed the ...

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Belisarius, Belisarius - Early life and career, Belisarius - Campaigns against the Vandals, Belisarius - Campaigns against the Ostrogoths, Belisarius - His later life and campaigns, Belisarius - The legend of Belisarius as a blind beggar, Belisarius - Belisarius in fiction, Belisarius - Named after him

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