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
The last emperor of the west, Augustulus, was put down in the year 476, and a barbarian prince named Odoacer became king of Italy.
From Sketches of Church History From A.D. 33 to the Reformation by James Craigie Robertson
Justinian as a civil ruler may be deemed worse than Odoacer, worse even than Theodorich.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Thomas W. Allies
In 488 a.d. it occurred to Zeno to offer Theodoric the government of Italy, if he would conquer it from Odoacer.
From The Byzantine Empire by Charles William Chadwick Oman
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