Siege of Rome (537–538)
537–538 · Event
For a year Belisarius holds Rome's Aurelian Walls with a few thousand men against the Gothic king Vitiges, whose cutting of the aqueducts ends the city's ancient water supply.
On these timelines: Justinian and Theodora, Italy (post-476 CE), Roman History, Master
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