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
It had resisted Odoacer, and Alboin required more than three years to take it, which he accomplished rather by famine than by force.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Allies, Thomas W.
He is made to replace Odoacer as the enemy of Dietrich of Bern, his nephew, and his history is related in the Norse Vilkina or Thidrekssag�, which chiefly embodies German tradition.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
It was an easy matter to defeat the unstable Odoacer, and the Latins made no resistance.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Sedgwick, Henry Dwight
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