TOTILA

tŏtˈĭlə or Baduilabădyooĭlˈə, d. 552, last king of the Ostrogoths (541–52). By defeating the Byzantines at Faenza and Mugello (542) and by taking Naples (543) and Rome (546), he became master of central and S Italy. Belisarius, the Byzantine commander, recovered Rome in 547 but was recalled in the following year. Rome again fell in 550 and left only Ravenna, Ancona, Otranto, and Crotona in Byzantine hands. Totila sent his fleet against Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia, and Illyria and made several peace offers to Emperor Justinian I. Instead of yielding, Justinian sent (552) Narses to Italy at the head of a well-equipped army. Totila was thoroughly routed by Narses near Taginae, in the Apennines W of Ancona, and perished in the battle. Thus Byzantium regained temporary control over Italy.

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The Age of Justinian: The Circumstances of Imperial Power
Book by J. A.S. Evans; Routledge, 2000
Subjects: Byzantine Empire--History--Justinian I, 527-565, Greece--History--323-1453
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History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian - Vol. 2
Book by J. B. Bury; Dover Publications, 1958
Subjects: Byzantine Empire--History, Rome--History--Empire, 284-476
...2. The First Successes of Totila A.D. 541-543 229...252 8. Totila in Sicily. Negotiations with the Franks...Battle of Busta Gallorum and Death of Totila A.D. 552 261...
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The Story of Ravenna
Book by Edward Hutton, Harald Sund; J. M. Dent & sons, ltd. ; E. P. Dutton & co., 1926
Subjects: Architecture--Italy--Ravenna, Ravenna (Italy)--History
...The Reconquest -- Vitiges, Belisarius, Totila, Narses 88 CHAPTER VIII...Cicero, Phil. xii. 9 till this raid of Radagaisus. Later, Totila came this way to besiege Rome. Cf. Repetti, Dizionario...
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Envoys and Political Communication in the Late Antique West, 411-533
Book by Andrew Gillett; Cambridge University Press, 2003
Subjects: Diplomacy--History--To 1500, Diplomatic And Consular Service--History--To 1500, Europe--History--392-814, Europe--Politics And Government--476-1492
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Constantinople: Birth of an Empire
Book by Harold Lamb; Alfred A. Knopf, 1957
Subjects: Byzantine Empire--History--Justinian I, 527-565, Justinian--I--Emperor Of The East--483?-565
...Edessa 252 Deepening of the Darkness 255 Belisarius and Totila 259 The Deserted City 265 Aftermath of the Destruction...
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The City's New Clothes: Ambrogio Lorenzetti and the Poetics of Peace
Journal article by C. Jean Campbell; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 83, 2001
Subjects: Art criticism, Lorenzetti, Ambrogio, Middle Ages
...provided the ethical core of the civic nobility, first in Fiesole and then later in Florence; during the period of tyranny under Totila, they retreated to their ancestral homes "nel for primaio antico colle," which is to say in the hills around Fiesole, where...
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The Urner Tellenspiel of 1512: Strategies of Early Political Drama
Journal article by Martin W. Walsh; Comparative Drama, Vol. 34, 2000
Subjects: Drama--Criticism, interpretation, etc., German literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Political plays--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Urner Tellspiel (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...be off, though the changing tides of Byzantine reconquest and Ostrogoth supremacy in Italy are dimly perceived. The career of Totila is generally accurate, for example, but the St. Gotthard Pass was not opened until the twelfth century. One is reminded of Brechts...
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Turning Bibelots into Museum Pieces: Josephine Coffin-Chevallier and the Creation of the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle
Journal article by Sarah Kane; Journal of Design History, Vol. 9, 1996
Subjects: Design--History
...it hard to resist a bargain: once, for example, Lamer offered her two marble bas-reliefs representing the kings Attila and Totila, saying that they had originally cost 300 francs but that he was giving 14 Late eighteenth-century French netting winder on...
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A Dictionary of Tocharian B
Journal article by Werner Winter; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 123, 2003
Subjects: A Dictionary of Tocharian B (Book)
...Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, Berlin, September 1990. Reykjavik: Malvisindastofnun Haskola Islands. Schmidt, Klaus Totila. 1974. Die Gebrauchsweisen des Mediums im Tocharischen. Gottingen. Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1949. Tocharische Sprachreste...


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Rome's Dark Night of Tyranny: When the Republic Fell, Rome Entered the Dark Decline of Empire. Only after Centuries of Misery under Predominantly Tyrannical Emperors Did Rome Finally Meet Its End
Magazine article by Steve Bonta; The New American, Vol. 21, February 7, 2005
Subjects: Roman culture--Analysis, Roman culture--History
...certain rustic virtue, enhanced by their Arian Christian beliefs. Gothic rulers of former Roman dominions, like Theodoric and Totila, were fairly just and humane rulers compared to the morally bankrupt Romans, and many former imperial citizens were happy to...


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encyclopedia articles on: Totila  - 5 results

 
 
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Totila
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TOTILA tot il or Baduila badyooil , d. 552, last king of...Ravenna, Ancona, Otranto, and Crotona in Byzantine hands. Totila sent his fleet against Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia, and Illyria...Narses to Italy at the head of a well-equipped army. Totila was thoroughly routed by Narses near Taginae, in the Apennines...
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Baduila
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BADUILA see Totila . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Narses
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and he was recalled. After the recall of Belisarius, Narses returned to Italy and completed the conquest, defeating (552) Totila . He defeated (554) an army of Franks and Alemanni at Capua. He was subsequently appointed prefect of Italy, but his administration...
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Belisarius
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...an indecisive campaign (541 42) against Khosrow I of Persia, and in 544 was sent back to Italy against the Goths led by Totila . Handicapped by Justinians jealousy and distrust, he could do little more than hold his enemies in check; he was recalled in...
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Ostrogoths
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Ostrogothic kingdom, but on his recall (541) the Ostrogoths rebelled under the leadership of Totila . In 552 the Byzantine general Narses defeated Totila, who fell in battle. As a result, the Ostrogoths lost their national identity, and the hegemony...


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