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==After Rome==

==After Rome==

Carthage stayed in Roman hands until the fall of the Empire.  By 500 A.D., with the fall of the western Empire, Carthaginian lands passed to the [[Visigoths]]. The [[Byzantium|Byzantine]] arm could not reach far enough to take Carthage until the reign of [[Justinian]].  In his monumental - and, ultimately, failed - attempt to reconquer Rome, Justinian's general [[Belisarius]] liberated the lands that been Carthage in the ancient equivalent of a [[blitzkrieg]]<ref>Belisarius is said to have exclaimed that the Visigoth's meals were still on the table by the time Roman arms controlled the city again, so quickly had the barbarians fled.</ref>, and integrated the territory into Byzantium.

Carthage stayed in Roman hands until the fall of the Empire.  By 500 A.D., with the fall of the western Empire, Carthaginian lands passed to the [[Visigoths]]. Under [[Justinian]] the [[Byzantine Empire]] (also called the Eastern Roman Empire) in an effort to reconquer all of the lands lost when the Western Roman Empire fell, invaded Africa a mere 50 years later.  Justinian's general [[Belisarius]] liberated the lands that been Carthage in the ancient equivalent of a [[blitzkrieg]]<ref>Belisarius is said to have exclaimed that the Visigoth's meals were still on the table by the time Roman arms controlled the city again, so quickly had the barbarians fled.</ref>, and integrated the territory into Byzantium.

This tenure proved brief indeed.  While Belisarius' armies went on to fight - and eventually win - a [[Pyrrhic victory]] in Italy, the resulting loss of life, decimation of the Italian peninsula, and loss of Byzantine treasury, left the empire an easy target for the [[Islam|Islamic]] armies which would emerge in just 100 years.  After the initial onslaught of Mohammed's armies, Carthaginian lands fell from Roman hands for the rest of history.

This tenure proved brief indeed.  While Belisarius' armies went on to fight - and eventually win - a [[Pyrrhic victory]] in Italy, the resulting loss of life, decimation of the Italian peninsula, and loss of Byzantine treasury, left the empire an easy target for the [[Islam|Islamic]] armies which would emerge in just 100 years.  After the initial onslaught of Mohammed's armies, Carthaginian lands fell from Roman hands for the rest of history.