Ostrogoths
State · 455–499 CE · at its largest around 490 CE
The eastern Gothic people, settled in Pannonia and the Balkans as Roman federates before Theodoric the Great led them into Italy in 489.
On its lands while it lasted
- Theodoric the Great (454 CE – 526 CE): Ostrogothic king who ruled Italy from Ravenna, preserving Roman administration and culture.
- Fall of the Western Roman Empire (476 CE): The Germanic general Odoacer deposed Romulus Augustulus, the last Western Roman emperor, at Ravenna, a date conventionally marking the end of the Western Empire.
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