Narses
Byzantine general
8 dated entries naming Narses, drawn from 8 separate years between 478 CE and 573 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
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- 538Gothic War: Vitiges strengthens the garrisons of various towns and besieges Ariminum. Byzantine forces under the Armenian general Narses arrive at Picenum.source
- 545Emperor Justinian I sends Narses, Byzantine general, to the rulers of the Heruli, to recruit troops for the campaigns in Italy and Syria.source
- 548Emperor Justinian I relieves Belisarius from military service, in favour of 70-year-old Byzantine general Narses.source
- 551After 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.source
- 553Battle 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.source
- 571Narses dies at Domitian's palace in Rome.source
- 573Narses, Byzantine general (b. 478)source
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- Justinian I (3)
- Byzantine Empire (2)
- Italy (2)
- Heruli (2)
- Belisarius (1)
- Lombards (1)
- Adriatic Sea (1)
- Bulgars (1)
- Syria (1)
- Armenia (1)
- Rimini (1)
- Gothic War (535–554) (1)