Which Byzantine emperor of the sixth century for a time won back parts of the former western empire?

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The emperor meant here sent armies west from the eastern capital and recovered parts of Italy, North Africa and southern Spain for a time, although the gains slipped away within a few generations. The Frankish rulers listed as alternatives all ruled in the west and never held the eastern throne; the earliest of them reigned a generation before this emperor and the others more than a century and a half after him.