Editing 553 (section)

==== Byzantine Empire ====
* [[Battle of Mons Lactarius]]:<ref>{{cite book|author1=Peter Connolly|author2=John Gillingham|author3=John Lazenby|title=The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Warfare|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1LUoDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT457|date=13 May 2016|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-135-93681-5|pages=457–}}</ref> King [[Teia]] secretly marches to join forces with his brother [[Aligern]] in [[Campania]], to relieve the [[siege]] of [[Cumae]]. Meanwhile at ''Mons Lactarius'' (modern [[Monti Lattari]]), [[Narses]] lays an [[ambush]]. The combined [[Ostrogoths|Gothic]] force is crushed in a hopeless [[last stand]] for two days (south of [[Naples]]), and Teia is killed in the fighting. Aligern escapes, but surrenders a few months later.
* The [[Ostrogothic Kingdom]] ends after 60 years of rule in [[Italy]]. The [[Goths]] are allowed to return to their homes in peace and (re)settle in modern-day [[Austria]]. Some 7,000 people retreat to [[Campsas]] (Southern [[Gaul]]), and resist with minimal help from the [[Franks]] against the [[Byzantine Greeks|Byzantines]] until [[554]].
* The [[Sasanian Empire|Sassanid]] commander [[Mihr-Mihroe]] force the Byzantines to retreat from Telephis and later Ollaria. (See [[Mihr-Mihroe's campaign of 554|Battle of Telephis–Ollaria]]).