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Siege of Rome: Quick Facts

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Facts

Date 537 - 538
Location Italy • Rome
Participants Byzantine Empire • Ostrogoth

Photos

Etruscan Necropolis
Horatius Cocles at the Sulpician Bridge
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Key People

Belisarius
Belisarius
Byzantine general