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
Neither Alaric, Attila, nor Odoacer could have looked more strange and sinister, nor could they have inspired more terror than he.
From The Grandee by Armando Palacio Valdés
Theodoric, the Ostrogoth, 12; victory over Odoacer, 13; difficulties, 13; policy, 14; visit to Rome, 14; dealings with Empire, 15; with Church, 17; breach with Church, 20; death, 20.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick
Odoacer exercised the authority which he held in Rome and in Italy, with the approval of the emperor Zeno.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Thomas W. Allies
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