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Capture of Sardinia

Roman Empire · Warfare / Roman Empire-Vandal War. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Justinian I the GreatDecember 533

Sardinia · Warfare / Roman Empire-Vandal War

Belisarius took Carthage, King Gelimer fled to Mount Pappua in Numidia, but surrenders and is taken to Constantinople, where he is paraded in a triumph while Sardinia and Corsica, the Balearic Islands, and the stronghold Septem near Gibraltar are recovered in the same campaign

Names involved

Justinian I the Great

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