MILITARY PERSONNEL

Belisarius

505 - 565

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Belisarius (Latin pronunciation: [bɛ.lɪˈsaː.ri.ʊs]; Greek: Βελισάριος; c. 500 – March 565) was a military commander of the Byzantine Empire under Emperor Justinian I. Belisarius was instrumental in the reconquest of much of the Mediterranean territory belonging to the former Western Roman Empire, which had been lost less than a century prior. He is considered one of the greatest military commanders in history and the greatest of all Byzantine generals. One of the defining features of Belisarius' career was his success despite varying levels of available resources. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Belisarius has received more than 2,363,030 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Belisarius is the 34th most popular military personnel (up from 53rd in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Bulgaria (up from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Bulgarian Military Personnel.

Belisarius was a general in the Byzantine army and is most famous for his victories against the Vandals, Goths, and Persians.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Belisarius ranks 34 out of 2,058. Before him are Wilhelm Keitel, Guan Yu, Vercingetorix, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Eugène de Beauharnais, and Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson. After him are Alfred Dreyfus, Simo Häyhä, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, T. E. Lawrence, and Douglas MacArthur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 505, Belisarius ranks 1. After him are Pope Pelagius I, Varāhamihira, Jacob Baradaeus, Germanus, and Hesychius of Miletus. Among people deceased in 565, Belisarius ranks 2. Before him is Justinian I. After him are Peter the Patrician, Antonina, and Samson of Dol.

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In Bulgaria

Among people born in Bulgaria, Belisarius ranks 3 out of 415. Before him are Aesop (-620), and Ahmed III (1673). After him are Elias Canetti (1905), Flavius Aetius (390), Georgi Dimitrov (1882), Phocas (547), Todor Zhivkov (1911), Boris III of Bulgaria (1894), Marcian (396), Maximinus Thrax (173), and Simeon I of Bulgaria (864).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Bulgaria

Among military personnels born in Bulgaria, Belisarius ranks 1. After him are Flavius Aetius (390), Osman Pazvantoğlu (1758), Abdülkerim Nadir Pasha (1807), Macrianus Major (250), Fakhri Pasha (1868), Bonifacius (350), Vitalian (500), Nikola Ivanov (1861), and Stefan Toshev (1859).

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