Kingdom of Odoacer
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Was the kingdom created by Germanic general Odoacer in Italy and nearby regions after he had overthrown the last Western Roman Emperor.
Establishment
September 476: After Odoacer deposed the last Roman emperor in the West, Romulus Augustulus, Euric quickly recaptured Provence.
September 476: On September 4 Germanic foederati under the command of the general Odoacer, conquered the Western Roman capital Ravenna, forced Roman emperor Romulus to abdicate and declared Odoacer king of Italy.
Chronology
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After Odoacer deposed the last Roman emperor in the West, Romulus Augustulus, Visigothic King Euric quickly captured Provence.
In 476, the Germanic barbarian king Odoacer deposed the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire in Italy, Romulus Augustulus, and the Senate sent the imperial insignia to the Eastern Roman Emperor Zeno.
Odoacer received eastern Sicily from the Vandals.
January 477: In 476, the Kingdom of Odoacer, led by the Germanic chieftain Odoacer, gained control of central-eastern Sicily from the Vandals, a Germanic tribe led by King Genseric. This acquisition was made possible through the payment of a tribute.
Odoacer conquered western Sicily from the Vandals.
January 478: In 476 Odoacer, king of the Heruli, began a bloody war against the Vandals, redeeming however almost all of Sicily with a tribute. With Hunneric the only Vandal stronghold remained Lilybaeum.
Dalmatia, still controlled by a Western Roman general, was occupied by Odoacer.
December 480: Ovida, as the only authority figure left in Dalmatia, was forced to defend Dalmatia against Odoacer's forces in a short war that ended with Ovida's death on December 9, 480. Dalmatia was then annexed to become part of Odoacer's Kingdom of Italy.
Several important cities in Dalmatia became factually independent after the end of the Western Roman Empire.
January 481: Arbe was one of the localities where the local Romance population survived the Barbarian invasions after the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 400s CE. Phersu Atlas Assumption: we assume that they become de facto indipendent after the conquest of Dalmatia by Odoacer in 480.
January 481: Trau was one of the localities where the local Romance population survived the Barbarian invasions after the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 400s CE. Phersu Atlas Assumption: we assume that they become de facto indipendent after the conquest of Dalmatia by Odoacer in 480.
January 481: Veglia was one of the localities where the local Romance population survived the Barbarian invasions after the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 400s CE. Phersu Atlas Assumption: we assume that they become de facto indipendent after the conquest of Dalmatia by Odoacer in 480.
January 481: Ragusa was one of the localities where the local Romance population survived the Barbarian invasions after the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 400s CE. Phersu Atlas Assumption: we assume that they become de facto indipendent after the conquest of Dalmatia by Odoacer in 480.
January 481: Zara was one of the localities where the local Romance population survived the Barbarian invasions after the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 400s CE. Phersu Atlas Assumption: we assume that they become de facto indipendent after the conquest of Dalmatia by Odoacer in 480.
January 481: Cres was one of the localities where the local Romance population survived the Barbarian invasions after the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 400s CE. Phersu Atlas Assumption: we assume that they become de facto indipendent after the conquest of Dalmatia by Odoacer in 480.
January 481: Spalato was one of the localities where the local Romance population survived the Barbarian invasions after the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 400s CE. Phersu Atlas Assumption: we assume that they become de facto indipendent after the conquest of Dalmatia by Odoacer in 480.
Was a military campaing by Ostrogothic King Theodoric the Great against Odoacer's Kingdom of Italy.
August 489: Odoacer was a Germanic chieftain who deposed the last Roman emperor in the West. The Kingdom of the Ostrogoths was ruled by Theodoric the Great, who defeated Odoacer near Aquileia in 489, leading to the territory falling under Ostrogothic control.
September 489: After being defeated by Theodoric the Great, Odoacer, retreated to the Adige River near Verona.
September 489: Battle of Verona.
November 489: Burgundian king Gundobald decided to take advantage of the divisions in Italy to carry out raids in Liguria.
November 489: Knowing the poor siege techniques of the Goths, Odoacer then decided to barricade himself in Ravenna, but Theodoric surprised him by occupying Milan and Pavia which opened the gates to him to avoid looting.
December 489: The Burgundians left Ligurai after a raid.
January 490: In 489 the Ostrogoths crossed the Alps and found themselves in Italy.
January 490: Odoacer made two serious political errors: the first was to sack Milan losing the favor of the population, and the second was to declare himself Augustus and place his son Tela as Caesar. The senatorial class did not take it well, and the whole of Southern Italy rebelled: Cassiodorus and all of Sicily broke away from Odoacer and offered themselves to Theodoric.
January 490: Theodoric was besieged in Pavia by Odoacer.
January 490: Odoacer's general, Tufa, pretended to defect but then had the Goths massacred. Odoacer's troops then marched towards Milan where Theodoric ordered the troops to withdraw. Milan was then barbarously sacked.
August 490: Battle of the Adda River: Ostrogoth king Odoacer was left with only Ravenna, Rimini and Cesena as well as the Adige Valley while the South and Center of Italy had surrendered.
July 492: Rimini, exhausted by hunger, surrendered, to the Ostrogoths.
January 493: In 492, Theodoric had got rid of Tufa.
February 493: Cesena succumbed to hunger.
March 493: Cesena succumbed to hunger.
Disestablishment
January 493: In 492, Theodoric had got rid of Tufa.
February 493: Cesena succumbed to hunger.
March 493: Cesena succumbed to hunger.
Selected Sources
Jackson, T.G. (1887): Dalmatia : the Quarnero and Istria with Cettigne in Montenegro and the Island of Grado, Robarts - University of Toronto, pp. 14-16
