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*died ‘1 july 552’*
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‘original name’ –> “baduila”
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(“totila”, was the penultimate ‘king of the ostrogoths’, reigning from 541 to 552 AD)
(a skilled military and political leader, ‘Totila’ reversed the tide of ‘Gothic War’, recovering by 543 almost all the territories in ‘Italy’ that the ‘Eastern Roman Empire’ had captured from his ‘Kingdom’ in 540)
(a relative of ‘Theudis’, sword-bearer of ‘Theodoric the Great’ and king of the ‘Visigoths’, ‘Totila’ was elected ‘king’ by ‘Ostrogothic’ nobles in the autumn of 541 after ‘King Witigis’ had been carried off prisoner to ‘Constantinople’)
(‘Totila’ proved himself both as a military and political leader, winning the support of the lower classes by liberating slaves and distributing land to the peasants)
(after a successful defense at ‘Verona’, ‘Totila’ pursued and defeated a numerically superior army at the ‘Battle of Faventia’ in 542 AD)
(building on his victories, ‘Totila’ followed these victories by defeating the ‘Romans’ outside ‘Florence’ and capturing ‘Naples’)
(by 543, fighting on land and sea, he had reconquered the bulk of the lost territory)
(‘Rome’ held out, and ‘Totila’ appealed unsuccessfully to the ‘Senate’ in a letter reminding them of the loyalty of the ‘Romans’ to his predecessor ‘Theodoric the Great’)
(in the spring of 544 the Eastern Roman emperor ‘Justinian I’ sent his general ‘Belisarius’ to ‘Italy’ to counterattack, but ‘Totila’, captured ‘Rome’ in 546 from ‘Belisarius’ and depopulated the city after a yearlong siege)
(when ‘Totila’ left to fight the ‘Byzantines’ in ‘Lucania’, south of ‘Naples’, ‘Belisarius’ retook ‘Rome’ and rebuilt its fortifications)
(after ‘Belisarius’ retreated to ‘Constantinople’ in 549, ‘Totila’ recaptured ‘Rome’, going on to complete the reconquest of ‘Italy’ and ‘Sicily’)
(by the end of 550, ‘Totila’ had recaptured all but ‘Ravenna’ and 4 coastal towns)
(the following year ‘Justinian’ sent his general ‘Narses’ with a force of 35,000 ‘Lombards’, ‘Gepids’, and ‘Heruli’ to ‘Italy’ in a march around the ‘Adriatic’ to approach ‘Ravenna’ from the north)
(in the ‘Battle of Taginae’, a decisive engagement during the summer of 552, in the ‘Apennines’ near present-day ‘Fabriano’, the ‘Gothic’ army was defeated, and ‘Totila’ was mortally wounded)
(‘Totila’ was succeeded by his relative, ‘Teia’, who later died at the ‘Battle of Mons Lactarius’)
(pockets of resistance, reinforced by ‘Franksand Alemanni’ who had invaded ‘Italy’ in 553, continued until 562, when the ‘Byzantines’ were in control of the whole of the country)
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(the country was so ravaged by war that any return to normal life proved impossible, and only three years after his death most of the country was conquered by ‘alboin’ of the ‘lombards’, who absorbed the remaining ‘ostrogothic’ population)
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👈👈👈 ☜ *“ERARIC”*
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*“TEIA”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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