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Liberius (praetorian prefect)

c. 465–554 · 6th century · Also known as Petrus Marcellinus Felix Liberius

Liberius was a Roman aristocrat and official who served Odoacer, the Ostrogothic king Theodoric and finally the emperor Justinian. He was praetorian prefect of Italy and then of Gaul, and later governed Egypt for Justinian. In 552, already in his eighties, he led the expedition that landed in south-eastern Hispania and began the Byzantine province of Spania.

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Byzantine Spania

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