During his reign, Justinian also subdued the Tzani, a people on the east coast of the Black Sea that had never been under Roman rule before. These campaigns re-established Roman control over the western Mediterranean, increasing the Empire's annual revenue by over a million solidi. The praetorian prefect Liberius reclaimed the south of the Iberian peninsula, establishing the province of Spania. Subsequently, Belisarius, Narses, and other generals conquered the Ostrogothic kingdom, restoring Dalmatia, Sicily, Italy, and Rome to the empire after more than half a century of rule by the Ostrogoths. His general, Belisarius, swiftly conquered the Vandal Kingdom in North Africa. This ambition was expressed by the partial recovery of the territories of the defunct Western Roman Empire.
His reign is marked by the ambitious but only partly realized renovatio imperii, or 'restoration of the Empire'. Ioustinianós 482 – 14 November 565), also known as Justinian the Great, was the Byzantine emperor from 527 to 565. Justinian I ( / dʒ ʌ ˈ s t ɪ n i ə n/ Latin: Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus Greek: Ἰουστινιανός, translit.
