Information
Name: Gothic War (535-554)
Type: Event
Start: 535
End: 563
Parents: Gothic Wars, Justinian's Renovatio Imperii
Children: First Intervention (Gothic War), Second Intervention (Gothic War)
Gothic War (535-554): All Data
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Was a war between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy. The war had its roots in the ambition of the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I to recover the provinces of the former Western Roman Empire, which the Romans had lost to invading barbarian tribes.