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Narses arrives in Venetia and discovers that …
Years: 551 - 551
Narses arrives in Venetia and discovers that a powerful Gothic-Frank army (fifty thousand men), under joint command of the kings Totila and Theudebald, blocks the principal route to the Po Valley.
Not wishing to engage such an formidable force and confident that the Franks would avoid a direct confrontation, Narses skirts the lagoons along the Adriatic shore by using vessels to leapfrog his army from point to point along the coast.
In this way, …
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- Lombards (West Germanic tribe)
- Goths (East Germanic tribe)
- Heruli (East Germanic tribe)
- Persian Empire, Sassanid, or Sasanid
- Bulgars
- East, or Oriens, Praetorian prefecture of
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Years: 551 - 551
Locations
People
Groups
- Franks
- Lombards (West Germanic tribe)
- Goths (East Germanic tribe)
- Heruli (East Germanic tribe)
- Persian Empire, Sassanid, or Sasanid
- Bulgars
- East, or Oriens, Praetorian prefecture of
- Italy, Praetorian prefecture of
- Ostrogoths, Italian Kingdom of the
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Justinian dynasty
Topics
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions