Flavius Belisarius (l. 505-565 CE) was born in Illyria (the western part of the Balkan Peninsula) to poor parents and rose to become one of the greatest generals, if not the greatest, of the Byzantine Empire.
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His name was Flavius Belisarius. Loyal to the Emperor Justinian, he led armies across three continents, reconquering lost provinces, defeating seemingly impossible odds, and earning the title many still give him today: the last great Roman general.
Flavius Belisarius was perhaps the greatest general the Byzantine Empire ever produced. Under the reign of Emperor Justinian I, he recaptured vast swaths of the former Western Roman Empire, including North Africa and Italy.
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Belisarius was born around the year 500, probably in Germania, [10] a fortified town of which some archaeological remains still exist, on the site of present-day Sapareva Banya in south-west Bulgaria, within the borders of Thrace and Paeonia.
Belisarius, Byzantine general, the leading military figure in the age of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I (527–565). As one of the last important figures in the Roman military tradition, he led imperial armies against the Sasanian empire (Persia) and the Vandal kingdom of North Africa, among others.
Belisarius was recalled and despite a later minor victory over the Huns at the Battle of Melantias was never again entrusted with a major command. He died in 565, only a few months before Justinian. Together they had increased the size of the Roman Empire by almost 50%.