Western Roman Empire
Fell in 476
The Western Roman Empire was the western half of the Roman Empire after its administrative division in 285 CE, governed from Rome and later Ravenna.
It encompassed modern-day Italy, Gaul, Hispania, Britain, and North Africa.
The empire's fall in 476 CE, when the last emperor Romulus Augustulus was deposed, traditionally marks the end of ancient history and the beginning of the Middle Ages in Europe.
- RavennaEmilia-Romagna coastal city
- fall of RomeAncient superpower's disintegration
- RomeItaly's capital city
- eternal cityMetropolis perceived as everlasting
- Latin languageClassical Mediterranean language
Visigoths · Vandals · Feudalism · Constantine I · Gaul · Milan · Praetorian Guard · Dalmatia · Carthage · Christianity · Renaissance humanism · Hispania · aqueducts · bread and circuses · gladiators · centurion · Latin · Caesar
- 5th CenturyAttila the Hun, Vandals, Visigoths, Huns, Ostrogoths
- European Empires
- Roman EmperorsAugustus, Theodosius I, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius
Western Roman EmpireEastern Roman Empire
Constantinople-centered medieval state
Western Roman Empirebarbarian kingdoms
Post-imperial Germanic polities
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