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After the death of Justinian, the Lombards came in and conquered most of the territory that he had spent his life trying to claim for Rome. The reconquest of Italy was doomed to failure because the Byzantine Empire did not work well with the Ostrogoths, who were willing to accept Belisarius as their Emperor. This timeline will examine one possibility that could have arisen if Belisarius were proclaimed Emperor in the West by Justinian.


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