biography
pronunciation:
[toteela]
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| King of the Ostrogoths (from 541). During the Gothic War he succeeded in winning back from the Byzantines large territories in C Italy. He defeated Belisarius and took first Rome in 546, and then Sicily. He was defeated at Senigallia and then at Gualdo Tadino by Narsete, and died while trying to escape. |
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