The collapse of the Roman Empire
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The Western and eastern parts of the Roman Empire in 476
The collapse of the Western Roman Empire is a historical process within the framework of the fall of the Western Roman Empire, characterized by the occupation of its various regions by barbarian tribes, mainly of Germanic origin.
At the beginning of the V century, the situation of the Western Roman Empire became much more complicated.
In 401, the Visigoths led by Alaric invaded Italy, and in 404 – the Ostrogoths, Vandals and Burgundians led by Radagais, who were defeated with great difficulty by the guardian of the Emperor Honorius (410-423), vandal Stilicho.[1]
During the reign of Valentinian III (425-455), the barbarian pressure on the Western Roman Empire increased.
In the late 440s, the conquest of Britain by the Angles, Saxons and Jutes began.
In the early 450s, the Huns, led by Attila, fell on the Western Roman Empire.
In June 451, the Roman general Flavius Aetius, in alliance with the Visigoths, Franks, Burgundians and Saxons, defeated Attila on the Catalaunian fields (east of Paris), but already in 452 the Huns invaded Italy.
Only the death of Attila in 453 and the collapse of his tribal union saved the West from the Hun threat.
In March 455, Valentinian III was deposed by Senator Petronius Maximus.
In June 455, the Vandals captured Rome and subjected it to a terrible defeat.
The Western Roman Empire was dealt a fatal blow.
The Vandals subjugated Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica.
In 457, the Burgundians occupied the Rodan basin (modern Rhone), creating an independent Burgundian kingdom.
By the beginning of the 460s, there was virtually only one Italy left under the rule of Rome.
The throne became a toy in the hands of barbarian military leaders, who at their own will proclaimed and overthrew emperors.
The prolonged agony of the Western Roman Empire was put to an end by Scyrus Odoacer: in 476 he overthrew the last Western Roman emperor Romulus Augustulus, sent the signs of supreme power to the Byzantine emperor Zeno and founded his own barbarian kingdom on the territory of Italy.
On September 4, 476, the Western Roman Empire ceased to exist.
The Eastern Roman Empire lasted for another 10 centuries until 1453, when the empire was attacked by the Turks and collapsed
See also[edit / edit wiki text]
The Western Roman Empire The Fall of the Western Roman Empire
Notes[edit / edit wiki text]
↑ The Last Century of the Empire
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