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Odoacer (/ˌoʊdoʊˈeɪsər/ OH-doh-AY-sər; c. 433 – 15
March 493 AD), also
spelled Odovacer or Odovacar, was a
barbarian soldier and
statesman from the Middle...
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Odoacer's deposition of
Romulus Augustus,
occurring in 476 AD, was a coup that
marked the end of the
reign of the
Western Roman Emperor last approved...
- In Italy, the
Ostrogoths led by
Theodoric the
Great killed and
replaced Odoacer, a
Germanic soldier, erstwhile-leader of the
foederati in
Northern Italy...
- for just ten months, the
barbarian general Odoacer defeated and
killed Orestes and
deposed Romulus. As
Odoacer did not
proclaim any successor,
Romulus is...
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raided East
Roman lands. At the
behest of Zeno, in 489
Theodoric attacked Odoacer, the king of Italy,
emerging victorious in 493. As the new
ruler of Italy...
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Roman Army in the West
suffered defeat at the
hands of
Odoacer and his
Germanic foederati.
Odoacer forced the
abdication of the
emperor Romulus Augustulus...
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forced to
support Odoacer given that
supporting the
Gallic rebels against Odoacer would have
amounted to
declaring war on
Odoacer,
which Zeno was not...
- the fall of the
Western Roman Empire. The
first to take the
title was
Odoacer, a
barbarian warlord, in the late 5th century,
followed by the Ostrogothic...
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ancient history and the
first year of the
Middle Ages in Europe.
Summer –
Odoacer,
chieftain of the
Germanic tribes (Herulic/Scirian foederati),
visits the...
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After the
deposition of the last
Western Emperor in 476,
Heruli leader Odoacer was
appointed Dux
Italiae ("Duke of Italy") by the
reigning Byzantine Emperor...
