Odoacer
Americannoun
noun
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Traditionally, though, the end of the empire is fixed at 476, when a German general named Odoacer deposed the emperor Romulus Augustulus and established himself not as a Roman emperor but as King of Italy.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
In 493, Odoacer was deposed and killed by a different Ostrogothic king, Theodoric, but the link with Constantinople remained intact.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
Odoacer acknowledged the sovereignty of the Empire without question.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Sedgwick, Henry Dwight
It was in both characters together that he set out in 488, by commission from the emperor Zeno, to recover Italy from Odoacer.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
And this domination from Odoacer to Leo III. regarded not the good of the Church, but the ends of Byzantine or Lombard.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Allies, Thomas W.
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