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In 390 BC, Gauls from the north of Italy sacked Rome. In the second half of the 4th century BC Rome clashed repeatedly with the Samnites, a powerful tribal coalition of the Apennine region. By the end of these wars, Rome had become the most powerful state in central Italy and began to expand to the north and to the south.
The colonists were given large estates up to 35 hectares. They lost their citizenship which they could regain if they returned to Rome. After 133 BC tribunes introduced reforms to support the urban poor to become farmers again in new colonies as agricultural settlements (e.g. Tarentum in 122 BC). [citation needed]
The Goths of Alaric sack Rome 455 The Vandals of Gaiseric sack Rome 476 Fall of the west empire and deposition of the final emperor Romulus Augustus: 6th century Gothic War (535–554): The Goths cut off the aqueducts in the siege of 537, an act which historians traditionally regard as the beginning of the Middle Ages in Italy [33] 608
The Roman Republic's influence began in southern Gaul. By the mid-2nd century BC, Rome was trading heavily with the Greek colony of Massilia (modern Marseille) and entered into an alliance with them, by which Rome agreed to protect the town from local Gauls, including the nearby Aquitani and from sea-borne Carthaginians and other rivals, in exchange for land that the Romans wanted in order to ...
Sack of Rome (455): The Vandals entered and began to sack Rome. 9 July: The Magister militum Avitus was pronounced augustus of the Western Roman Empire at Toulouse by the Visigothic king Theodoric II. 456: 17 October: Avitus was forced to flee Rome following a military coup by the general Ricimer and the domesticus Majorian. 457: Avitus died ...
Alaric, king of Visigoths, sacked Rome itself in 410; something that had not happened for eight centuries. Northern Italy was attacked by Attila's Huns in 452. Rome was sacked in 455 again by the Vandals under the command of Genseric. The Praetorian prefecture of Italy (in yellow) stretched from the Danube river to North Africa
410 - Rome is sacked by Alaric, King of the Visigoths; 422 - The Church of Santa Sabina is founded. 455 - Rome is sacked by Genseric, King of the Vandals; 476 - Romulus Augustulus is deposed, traditionally considered the end of the Western Roman Empire and the beginning of the Middle Ages in Europe.
The European country of Italy has been inhabited by humans since at least 850,000 years ago. Since classical antiquity, ancient Etruscans, various Italic peoples (such as the Latins, Samnites, and Umbri), Celts, Magna Graecia colonists, and other ancient peoples have inhabited the Italian Peninsula.