{"slug": "narses", "label": "Narses", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narses", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q294781", "qid": "Q294781", "description": "Byzantine general", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [478, 573], "span_label": ["478 CE", "573 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "justinian-i", "label": "Justinian I", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "heruli", "label": "Heruli", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "belisarius", "label": "Belisarius", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lombards", "label": "Lombards", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "adriatic-sea", "label": "Adriatic Sea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bulgars", "label": "Bulgars", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "syria", "label": "Syria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "armenia", "label": "Armenia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "rimini", "label": "Rimini", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "gothic-war-535554", "label": "Gothic War (535–554)", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 478, "year_label": "478 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Narses, Byzantine general (d. 573)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360122028#Births", "title": "478", "revid": 1360122028, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 538, "year_label": "538 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Gothic War: Vitiges strengthens the garrisons of various towns and besieges Ariminum. Byzantine forces under the Armenian general Narses arrive at Picenum.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351200776#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "538", "revid": 1351200776, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 545, "year_label": "545 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Justinian I sends Narses, Byzantine general, to the rulers of the Heruli, to recruit troops for the campaigns in Italy and Syria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340799600#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "545", "revid": 1340799600, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 548, "year_label": "548 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Justinian I relieves Belisarius from military service, in favour of 70-year-old Byzantine general Narses.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368141112#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "548", "revid": 1368141112, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 551, "year_label": "551 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "After the death of his cousin Germanus, Justinian I appoints Narses new supreme commander, and returns to Italy. In Salona on the Adriatic coast, he assembles a Byzantine expeditionary force totaling 20,000 or possibly 30,000 men and a contingent of foreign allies, notably Lombards, Heruls and Bulgars.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362066549#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "551", "revid": 1362066549, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 553, "year_label": "553 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Mons Lactarius: King Teia secretly marches to join forces with his brother Aligern in Campania, to relieve the siege of Cumae. Meanwhile at Mons Lactarius (modern Monti Lattari), Narses lays an ambush. The combined Gothic force is crushed in a hopeless last stand for two days (south of Naples), and Teia is killed in the fighting. Aligern escapes, but surrenders a few months later.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267072897#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "553", "revid": 1267072897, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 571, "year_label": "571 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Narses dies at Domitian's palace in Rome.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364751956#Deaths", "title": "571", "revid": 1364751956, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 573, "year_label": "573 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Narses, Byzantine general (b. 478)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1332331069#Deaths", "title": "573", "revid": 1332331069, "section": "Deaths"}}]}