<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitiges" id="mwEQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Vitiges">Vitiges</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_kingship" id="mwEg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Germanic kingship">king</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrogoths" id="mwEw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ostrogoths">Ostrogoths</a> ends his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Rome_(537–538)" id="mwFA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Siege of Rome (537–538)">siege of Rome</a> and retreats to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenna" id="mwFQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ravenna">Ravenna</a>, leaving the city to the victorious <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" id="mwFg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine</a> general, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belisarius" id="mwFw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Belisarius">Belisarius</a>.<sup about="#mwt15" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"}}' id="cite_ref-1" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_12#cite_note-1" id="mwGA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwGQ">[1]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"><cite about="#mwt12" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFDupuy1993">Dupuy, Richard Ernest (1993). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=fikOAQAAMAAJ&amp;q=%22siege+of+rome%22+%22march+12%22" id="mwCW4" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwCW8">The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 BC to the Present</i></a>. HarperCollins. p.<span id="mwCXA" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>203. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwCXE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwCXI" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-06-270056-8" id="mwCXM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-06-270056-8"><bdi id="mwCXQ">978-0-06-270056-8</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwCXU">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwCXY">10 January</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt12" class="Z3988" id="mwCXc" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Harper+Encyclopedia+of+Military+History%3A+From+3500+BC+to+the+Present&amp;rft.pages=203&amp;rft.pub=HarperCollins&amp;rft.date=1993&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-06-270056-8&amp;rft.aulast=Dupuy&amp;rft.aufirst=Richard+Ernest&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DfikOAQAAMAAJ%26q%3D%2522siege%2Bof%2Brome%2522%2B%2522march%2B12%2522&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarch+12"></span></span>