<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" id="mwHQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine</a> general <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belisarius" id="mwHg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Belisarius">Belisarius</a> completes the conquest of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicily" id="mwHw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sicily">Sicily</a>, defeating the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrogoths" id="mwIA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ostrogoths">Gothic</a> garrison of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palermo" id="mwIQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Palermo">Palermo</a> (Panormos), and ending his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consul" id="mwIg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Consul">consulship</a> for the year.<sup about="#mwt25" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-3"}}' id="cite_ref-3" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_31#cite_note-3" id="mwIw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 3;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwJA">[3]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-3"><cite about="#mwt22" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFKruse2019">Kruse, Marion (4 October 2019). <i id="mwB2A">The Politics of Roman Memory: From the Fall of the Western Empire to the Age of Justinian</i>. University of Pennsylvania Press. p.<span id="mwB2E" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>117. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB2I" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB2M" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-8122-5162-3" id="mwB2Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8122-5162-3"><bdi id="mwB2U">978-0-8122-5162-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt22" class="Z3988" id="mwB2Y" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Politics+of+Roman+Memory%3A+From+the+Fall+of+the+Western+Empire+to+the+Age+of+Justinian&amp;rft.pages=117&amp;rft.pub=University+of+Pennsylvania+Press&amp;rft.date=2019-10-04&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-8122-5162-3&amp;rft.aulast=Kruse&amp;rft.aufirst=Marion&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+31"></span></span>