Belisarius
6th century Byzantine general instrumental in reconquest of much of the former Roman Mediterranean territories (505-565)
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Lived 505–565, aged 60
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The general who restored the Roman Empire's lost western half with armies he could barely afford to feed. Belisarius took North Africa in nine months, reclaimed Rome against impossible numbers, and kept winning on scraps and deception where better-supplied commanders would have collapsed.
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Flavius Belisarius served as military commander under Byzantine Emperor Justinian I around 500–565, tasked with reclaiming Mediterranean territories the Western Roman Empire had lost a century earlier. He crushed the Vandal Kingdom of North Africa in nine months during the Vandalic War, forcing King Gelimer to surrender after victories at Ad Decimum and Tricamarum. During the Gothic War he recaptured Rome while vastly outnumbered, then held the city through a brutal siege. His campaigns against Persia brought mixed results—a loss at Thannurin, victory at Dara, defeat at Callinicum—but he turne…
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