Greetings all,
Today we commemorate with sadness the fall of Rome to the Ostrogoths under their leader Totila on January 16th in 550 AD:
After a long siege the Isaurian garrison was bribed to open the gate. Admittedly it's understandable as Justinian hadn't paid the garrison in years, so their choice was money and life or an unpaid death.
The Ostrogoths controlled Rome until
their defeat in the Battle of Taginae in 552 AD, when the Empire
regained Rome again. The city remained under Eastern Roman control until
the 8th Century AD when it fell to the Lombards.
-Marcus Cassius Julianus
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