Odoacer
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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
We are expressly told that Odoacer, the first German king of Italy, who deposed Romulus Augustulus, the last West Roman, had his seat in Ravenna.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Thomas W. Allies
Zeno commissioned him to turn Odoacer out, and to take his place.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies
Odoacer acknowledged the sovereignty of the Empire without question.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick
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