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Name: Kingdom of the Alemanni

Type: Polity

Start: 214 AD

End: 496 AD

Nation: kingdom of the alemanni

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Kingdom of the Alemanni

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Romans controlled the Agri Decumates (southwestern Germany) region until the mid-3rd century, when the emperor Gallienus (259-260) evacuated it before the invading Alemanni, a Germanic Tribe, that esablished their Kingdom in the region.

Establishment

January 214: The Alemanni occupied part of the Acri Decumates region.

Chronology

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1. Crisis of the Third Century

Was a period in which the Roman Empire nearly collapsed due to invasions and secessions. In particular, the period saw the creation of two secessionist states: the Gallic Empire andhe Kingdom of Palmyra.

1.1.Barbarian invasions of the Third Century

Were a series of Barbarian invasions of the Roman Empire during the Crisis of the Third Century.

1.1.1.Evacuation of the Agri Decumates

Romans controlled the Agri Decumates region until the mid-3rd century, when the emperor Gallienus (259-260) evacuated it before the invading Alemanni.

January 261: The Romans evacuated most of the Agri Decumates region before the invading Alemanni.

January 299: Alemanni expansion into the Agri Decumates, a region of the Roman Empire's provinces of Germania Superior and Raetia.

January 358: Alemanni expansion into the Agri Decumates, a region of the Roman Empire's provinces of Germania Superior and Raetia.

January 379: Alemanni expansion into the Agri Decumates, a region of the Roman Empire's provinces of Germania Superior and Raetia.

2. Hunnic Wars

Were a series of conflicts that saw the Huns, an invading tribe probably from Central Asia, fighting against the Romans as well as the Germanic tribes of Europe.

2.1.Hunnic Invasion of Europe

The Huns invaded Europe starting with the Ukrainian Steppe.

2.1.1.Thuringia is conquered by the Huns

The Huns conquered the territories occupied by the Thuringians.

January 401: After the death of King Gunther, the Thuringians were conquered by the Huns under the leadership of Attila the Hun in 400 AD. This marked the beginning of Hunnic rule over the Thuringian territories in present-day Germany.

2.2.Hunnic Expansion

Were the expansion wars of the Huns, who established a vast, but short-lived, dominion in Europe.

January 433: The king of the Huns Rugila greatly expanded the Hunnic Empore. The Huns achieved supremacy over their rivals, many of them highly civilized, thanks to their military prowess, mobility and weapons such as the Hunnic bow.

2.3.Hunnic Invasion of Gallia

Invasion of Gaul by the Huns under king Attila.

January 452: Honoria, the sister of Roman Emperor Valentinian III, sent a plea for help to Attila, King of the Huns, along with her ring. Attila interpreted this as an offer of marriage, and he claimed half of the Western Roman Empire as her dowry. Subsequently, the Huns invaded northern Gaul, where they occupied several major European cities, including Reims, Strasbourg, Trier, and Cologne.

February 452: Attila was defeated by Roman General Flavius Aetius in the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains. The Huns left the Roman territories they had occupied in Gaul and central Europe.

2.4.Germanic-Hunnic Wars

Was the conflict between the Germanic Tribes of central and eastern Europe against the Huns.

2.4.1.Battle of Nedao

The Battle of Nedao was a battle fought in Pannonia in 454 CE between the Huns and their former Germanic vassals. It was decisive Germanic victory.

January 455: The Battle of Nedao was a battle fought in Pannonia in 454 between Huns and their former vassals. Nedao is believed to be a tributary of Sava river. Hunnic dominance in Central and Eastern Europe was broken as a result of the battle.

3. Invasion of Alans, Suebs and Vandals

At the end of 406 AD a large group of Alans, Suebi and Vandals invaded the Roman Empire.

January 408: A barbarian horde of extraordinary proportions, made up of Vandals, Alans and Suebi, driven westward by the Huns, crossed the frozen Rhine and penetrated into Gaul.

4. Occupation of Gallia Belgica by germanic tribes

The Roman province of Gallia Belgica was occupied by Germanic tribes.

January 421: The Franks, together with the Burgundians and the Alemanni, settled in the area around the Rhine.

5. Foundation of the Kingdom of the Rugii

In 453, the Rugii successfully rebelled against the Huns along with other Germanic tribes at the Battle of Nedao, after which they settled in a region presently part of Lower Austria (ancient Noricum), north of the Danube.

January 455: In 453, the Rugii successfully rebelled against the Huns along with other Germanic tribes at the Battle of Nedao, after which they settled in a region presently part of Lower Austria (ancient Noricum), north of the Danube.

6. Assassination of Majorian

Western Roman Emoperor Majorian was assassinated and overthrown by Ricimer.

September 461: When Western Roman emperor Majorian was killed on the orders of Ricimer in 461, general Aegidius maintained his own rule in the remnants of Roman Gaul that came to be known as the Domain or Kingdom of Soissons.

7. Expansion of the Franks after the Fall of the Western Roman Empire

The Franks invaded the Domain of Soissons.

January 477: After Gaul had increasingly slipped away from Western Roman control since the death of the power-conscious general Aëtius in 454, the Franks used the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, which had been shattered by civil wars (around 476), to fill the power vacuum that had arisen and take over their territory on their own enlarge, similar to the Visigoths in the south.

8. Frankish-Alemannic War

Was a war between the Frankish Kingdom and the Kingdom of the Alemanni, both kingdoms created on Roman territory by Germanic peoples during the migration period.

January 497: In 496 Frankish kinf Clovis attacked the Alemanni and subdued them.