Teia ( Latin Theias ; Greek Τεΐας ; died in 552 [2] [3] ) - king of the Ostrogoths in July - October 552.
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| Successor | title abolished | ||||||
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Biography
Tei's father was called Fritigern. Teia was the general of Totila , commandant of Verona . Komit Teia only at the very last moment with 2,000 horsemen came to the aid of his king at the . After the defeat of the Goths and the death of Totila, Theia hastened to the royal city of (present-day Pavia ), where he was elected king, took possession of the treasury and entered into an alliance with the Franks .
Under Teya, the Goths began their last battle with Byzantium , accompanied by all the horrors of a long-lost war - the killing of hostages and repressions against peaceful Romans.
Teia went to Lower Italy , but under the pressure of the Byzantines was forced to retreat to the Naples area. Then the treason of the commander of the Gothic fleet followed, and Teija's position became hopeless. At the Milk Mountain , south of Sarno , which flows into the Gulf of Naples, he met with Narses . The famine forced the Ostrogoths to engage in a desperate battle. For three days Teia bravely fought with the Byzantine army and after heroic resistance fell with most of her ready. After the death of their king, the Goths fought until Narses guaranteed their return to their own land if they promised to become loyal subjects of the emperor.
Some of the surviving Ostrogoths went to Pavia, others scattered across Italy. Alagern long defended the Kuma , where the royal treasury was located. The Ostrogoths thought, with the help of the Franks and Alemans, to regain Italy, but were defeated by Narses on the banks of Volturn , near Casilin in 554. Only the Ostrogoth detachment of 7,000 soldiers remained, which settled in the mountain fortress of Camps , well stocked with food. A few months later, however, this detachment surrendered to Narses. The Ostrogothic kingdom in Italy fell after twenty years of struggle.
Notes
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 138600716 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Martindale JR Theia // Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire . - Cambridge University Press , 1992. - Vol. III (b): AD 527–641. - P. 1224. - ISBN 0-521-20160-8 [2001 reprint].
- ↑ Wolfram H. Gotha. - SPb. : Juventa Publishing House, 2003. - S. 516. - ISBN 5-87399-142-1 .
Literature
- Procopius of Caesarea. War with the Goths ( Book IV, chapters 18–35 )
- Herwig Tungsten. Goths. From the origins to the middle of the VI century / Translation from German B. Milovidov, M. Schukin. - SPb. : Juventa, 2003 .-- 654 p. - (Historical Library). - 2,000 copies. - ISBN 5-87399-142-1 .
- Western Europe . // Rulers of the World. Chronological and genealogical tables on world history in 4 vols. / Compiled by V.V. Erlikhman . - T. 2.
- Theia, king of the Ostrogoths // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.