Byzantine reconquest of Spania

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Was a Byzantine military campaign against the Kingdom of the Visigoths to reconquer the Iberian Peninsula. The Byzantine were able to slowly occupy the southern coast of the Peninsula.

Chronology

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January 535: Ceuta was seized by an expedition dispatched by Belisarius.

August 552: Who, and when, exactly began negotiations with the Byzantines for assistance is debated by historians, as the primary sources are divided. What is known is that Justinian was summoned by one of the two contenders for the throne and prepared an army. Liberio's forces arrived at the mouths of the Guadalete or possibly Malaga.

January 555: After two years of war the Romans were able to wrestle the extreme southern coast of Spain from the Visigoths.

November 555: The Byzantines occupied many coastal cities in Baetica.