'''Uligisalus''' was a Gothic military commander during Justinian's Gothic War.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/belisariuslastro00ianh|title=Belisarius : the last Roman general|last=Hughes, Ian (Historian)|date=2009|publisher=Westholme|isbn=9781594160851|location=Yardley, Pa.|oclc=294885267|url-access=registration}}</ref>
Historical accounts cited him as one of the two commanders sent by Witigis to recover Dalmatia for the Goths. The other commander was Asinarius, who stopped to gather a barbarian army upon reaching Savia<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|title=The Wars of Justinian|last=Prokopios|date=2014|publisher=Hackett Publishing|isbn=9781624661716|location=Indianapolis/Cambridge|pages=291|translator-last=Dewing|translator-first=H.B.}}</ref> while Uligisalus continued to engage the enemy at Scardon.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" /> He was defeated by Constantinianus at the Battle of Scardon.<ref name=":0" /> Uligisalus retreated to the city of Burnum, where he waited for Asinarius. The army, however, failed and this loss marked the end of the Goth's domination over the region while Savia fell to the Lombards and Noricum to the Franks.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=A Companion to Ostrogothic Italy|last1=Arnold|first1=Jonathan|last2=Bjornlie|first2=M. Shane|last3=Sessa|first3=Kristina|date=2016|publisher=BRILL|isbn=9789004313767|location=Leiden|pages=93}}</ref> Dalmatia, on the other hand, became a Byzantine stronghold, serving as a staging ground for its campaigns in Italy.<ref name=":1" />
Uligisalus was later employed as the commander of the 400 men garrison of Tudera.<ref name=":0" />
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Category:People of the Gothic War (535–554) Category:6th-century Gothic people
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