The Siege of Naples in 536 is a successful siege of Naples by the Byzantines under Belisarius during the Gothic War.
The Byzantine army under Belisarius, having subdued Sicily with ease, lands on mainland Italy in late spring 536, and advances along the coast on Naples.
The citizens of Naples, roused by two orators, decide to resist.
The siege drags on for twenty days with numerous Byzantine casualties, and Belisarius is preparing to abandon it when his soldiers discover an entrance into the city through the disused aqueduct.
After giving the city a final chance to surrender, Belisarius launches his troops in a brutal sack.
The Ostrogothic garrison of 800 men is taken prisoner and treated well, but the citizens suffer greatly at the hands of the Byzantine troops, and especially their Hunnic mercenaries.
From Naples, the Byzantines march on to Rome, which they enter in early December.
