Despite the first sacking of Rome in 410 AD by King Alaric and his Visigoths, and many sackings after that by various other armies and Kings, people consider the abdication of Emperor Romulus Augustus in 476 AD to be the “official” end of the Western Roman Empire. In 476 AD, the Ger...
AlaricAlaric entering Athens, illustration, c. 1920s. 2 of 2 AttilaAttila, 19th-century painting. Alaric, king of theVisigoths, sacked Rome in 410, signaling the beginning of the end of the Western Empire. Shortly after Alaric’s death later that year, the Goths passed into Gaul and Spain...
The sack of Rome byAlarictheVisigothin 410cehad enormous impact on the political structure and social climate of the Western world, for theRoman Empirehad provided the basis of social cohesion for most of Europe. Although the Germanic tribes that forcibly migrated into southern and western Europe...
The Roman Empire, founded in 27 B.C., was a vast and powerful domain that gave rise to the culture, laws, technologies and institutions that continue to define Western civilization.
Battle of the Frigidus Battle of the Frigidus Date Sep 5-6, 394 Location near Frigidus river Victor Emperor Theodosius Contenders Eastern Roman EmpireVisigoths Western Roman Empire Military Leaders Theodosius ITimasiusStilichoAlaricBacuriusGainas EugeniusArbogast Unit Strength 20,000–30,000 Romans20,...
The sack of Rome byAlarictheVisigothin 410cehad enormous impact on the political structure and social climate of the Western world, for theRoman Empirehad provided the basis of social cohesion for most of Europe. Although the Germanic tribes that forcibly migrated into southern and western Europe...
overran theAlani, who occupied the plains between the Volga and theDonrivers, and then quickly overthrew the empire of theOstrogothsbetween theDonand theDniester. About 376 they defeated the Visigoths living in what is now approximatelyRomaniaand thus arrived at the Danubian frontier of theRoman ...
The sack of Rome byAlarictheVisigothin 410cehad enormous impact on the political structure and social climate of the Western world, for theRoman Empirehad provided the basis of social cohesion for most of Europe. Although the Germanic tribes that forcibly migrated into southern and western Europe...
The sack of Rome byAlarictheVisigothin 410cehad enormous impact on the political structure and social climate of the Western world, for theRoman Empirehad provided the basis of social cohesion for most of Europe. Although the Germanic tribes that forcibly migrated into southern and western Europe...
Honorius, Roman emperor in the West from 393 to 423, a period when much of the Western Empire was overrun by invading tribes and Rome was captured and plundered by the Visigoths. He was one of the weakest of the Roman emperors. When he intervened in poli