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Byzantine Italy

{{Short description|Parts of Italy held by the Byzantine Empire}}

File:Byzantine and Longobard Italy - 600 AD.png

Byzantine Italy consisted of various parts of the Italian peninsula that were under the control of the Byzantine Empire since the Gothic War (535–554), and up to the end of the 11th century, with a brief attempt of Byzantine reconquest in the middle of the 12th century.{{sfn|Cosentino|2021|p=1-25}}

Chronologically, it refers to:

File:Southern Italy, ca. 1000 AD.svg

Several states avoided conquest by the Lombards or Franks and maintained nominal Byzantine allegiance even after the Byzantine presence in Italy came to an end:

Likewise, the island of Sardinia maintained Byzantine allegiance in this period:

See also

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References

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Sources

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  • {{Cite book|last=Calaon|first=Diego|chapter=La Venetia maritima tra il VI e il IX sec. Mito, continuità e rottura|title=Dalla catalogazione alla promozione dei beni archeologici|year=2014|location=Venezia|publisher=Regione del Veneto|pages=53-66|chapter-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250613195528/https://iris.unive.it/bitstream/10278/3715458/1/2014_Catalogaz_Venetia_Marittima_Calaon_1.pdf}}
  • {{Cite book|editor-last=Cosentino|editor-first=Salvatore|title=A Companion to Byzantine Italy|year=2021|location=Boston-Leiden|publisher=Brill|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qo8cEAAAQBAJ&pg=PR3}}
  • {{Cite book|editor-last1=Gelichi|editor-first1=Sauro|editor-last2=Gasparri|editor-first2=Stefano|title=Venice and Its Neighbors from the 8th to 11th Century: Through Renovation and Continuity|year=2018|location=Leiden-Boston|publisher=Brill|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LntTDwAAQBAJ&pg=PP3}}
  • {{Cite book|last=Kreutz|first=Barbara M.|title=Before the Normans: Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries|year=1996|location=Philadelphia|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P-ucSSZrJ0YC&pg=PR3}}
  • {{Cite book|last=Meyendorff|first=John|author-link=John Meyendorff|year=1989|title=Imperial unity and Christian divisions: The Church 450-680 A.D.|location=Crestwood, NY|publisher=St. Vladimir's Seminary Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6J_YAAAAMAAJ}}
  • {{Cite book|last=Ostrogorsky|first=George|author-link=George Ostrogorsky|year=1956|title=History of the Byzantine State|location=Oxford|publisher=Basil Blackwell|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bt0_AAAAYAAJ}}
  • {{Cite book|editor-last1=Peters|editor-first1=Edward|editor-link1=Edward Peters (scholar)|editor-last2=Foulke|editor-first2=William D.|editor-link2=William Dudley Foulke|title=Paul the Deacon: History of the Lombards|year=2003|orig-year=1907|location=Philadelphia|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vn8NQIPShA0C&pg=PR1}}
  • {{Cite book|last=Ravegnani|first=Giorgio|title=Bisanzio e Venezia|year=2006|location=Bologna|publisher=Il mulino|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X25oAAAAMAAJ}}
  • {{Cite book|editor-last=Skoblar|editor-first=Magdalena|title=Byzantium, Venice and the Medieval Adriatic: Spheres of Maritime Power and Influence, c. 700-1453|year=2021|location=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XUfEAAAQBAJ&pg=PR3}}
  • {{Cite book|last=West-Harling|first=Veronica|title=Rome, Ravenna, and Venice, 750-1000: Byzantine Heritage, Imperial Present, and the Construction of City Identity|year=2020|location=Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gxT0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PR3}}
  • {{Cite journal|last=Vicelja-Matijašić|first=Marina|title=Byzantium and Istria: Some Aspects of Byzantine Presence in Istria|journal=Acta Histriae|year=2005|volume=13|number=1|pages=185–204|url=https://zdjp.si/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Vicelja-Matija%C5%A1i%C4%87.pdf}}
  • {{Cite book|last=Wickham|first=Chris|title=Early Medieval Italy: Central Power and Local Society, 400-1000|year=1981|location=Totowa, NJ|publisher=Barnes & Noble|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8DYMAQAAMAAJ}}

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