Significant535 CE – 554 CE · 19 years

Byzantine-Lombard Wars

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Italy · Mediterranean

Estimated casualties

500Ksingle estimate · no range published

The Byzantine reconquest of Italy from the Ostrogoths under Justinian, devastating the Italian peninsula.

Belligerents2

Byzantine Empire
Ostrogothic Kingdom

ON THE MAPByzantine Empire (Justinian–Maurice)Ostrogothic Kingdom

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 5

Battle of Faventia542 CE
Battle of Sinigaglia551 CE
Battle of Taginae552 CE
Battle of Mount Lactarius553 CE
Battle of Casilinum554 CE

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Byzantine-Lombard Wars (535 CE – 554 CE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/italo-byzantine-wars · Sources & methodology