KnowraByzantine ItalyLinked fromLinked fromThe 13 pages that link to Byzantine Italy, each with the reason it gives.All 13Broader topic 3Related 3Narrower topic 3Compared with 4Norman conquest of southern ItalyRelated: Norman campaigns against Byzantine possessions brought Apulia and other mainland areas under new rulers.Gothic War (535–554)Related: Imperial rule returned, though control remained uneven and increasingly fragmented.NarsesBroader topic: Narses’s campaigns restored these territories to imperial rule.Lombard KingdomRelated: The Lombards entered a peninsula weakened and divided by Byzantine reconquest.Exarchate of RavennaNarrower topic: The exarchate’s fall was a major turning point in the broader history of Byzantine Italy.Lombard invasion of ItalyCompared with: Lombard advances took land from Byzantine authorities but left them control of important enclaves.Robert GuiscardCompared with: Guiscard’s campaigns dismantled much of Byzantine political control in southern Italy.LombardsCompared with: Lombard expansion repeatedly competed with Byzantine authority in Italy.Battle of Mons LactariusNarrower topic: The battle helped restore imperial control, though the peninsula remained contested.Battle of TaginaeBroader topic: Taginae helped secure the imperial recovery of Italy, though control remained contested.AlboinCompared with: Alboin's forces took territory from a Byzantine administration weakened by war and distance.Byzantine–Norman WarsNarrower topic: Norman expansion dismantled the empire’s remaining mainland possessions in southern Italy.Byzantine Empire under the Justinian dynastyBroader topic: Reclaimed Italy remained under imperial rule but required costly defense.