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Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire
Vandals & Ostrogoths
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Battle of Tricamarum

December 15, 533 · North Africa (west of Carthage) Theater

Decisive Byzantine victory; the Vandal kingdom destroyed and Africa reconquered.

December 15, 533

Gelimer, reinforced by his brother Tzazon's army returned from Sardinia, made a final stand at Tricamarum. Belisarius's cavalry charged the Vandal centre in successive waves; Tzazon was killed, the Vandal line broke, and Gelimer fled. He surrendered months later after a siege in the mountains, and was paraded in Belisarius's triumph at Constantinople.

  • Battle of Tricamarum

Commanders

Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire · Belisarius; John the Armenian
Vandals & Ostrogoths · King Gelimer of the Vandals; Tzazon