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The Ostrogothic Kingdom, officially the Kingdom of Italy (Latin: Regnum Italiae), [5] was a barbarian kingdom established by the Germanic Ostrogoths that controlled Italy and neighbouring areas between 493 and 553.
Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy. The greatest of all Ostrogothic rulers, the future Theodoric the Great (whose Gothic name meant "leader of the people") of the Ostrogothic Kingdom (Regnum Italiae, "Kingdom of Italy") [f] was born to Theodemir in or about 454, soon after the Battle of
Belisarius' departure left most of Italy in Roman hands, but north of the Po, Pavia (which became the new capital of the Ostrogothic Kingdom [34] [35]) and Verona remained unconquered. Soon after Belisarius' breach of faith towards them became apparent, the Goths, at the suggestion of Uraias, chose Ildibad as their new king and he re ...
The history of Italy in the Middle Ages can be roughly defined as the time between the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the Italian Renaissance. Late antiquity in Italy lingered on into the 7th century under the Ostrogothic Kingdom and the Byzantine Empire under the Justinian dynasty, the Byzantine Papacy until the mid 8th century.
Quarter siliqua of Vitiges. Campaign map of the first phase of the Gothic war, 535–540. Vitiges (also known as Vitigis, Vitigo, Witiges or Wittigis, and in Old Norse as Vigo) (died 542) was king of Ostrogothic Italy from 536 to 540. [1]
Theodoric (or Theoderic) the Great (454 – 30 August 526), also called Theodoric the Amal, [b] was king of the Ostrogoths (475–526), and ruler of the independent Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy between 493 and 526, [3] regent of the Visigoths (511–526), and a patrician of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Ostrogothic Ravenna refers to the time period in which Ravenna, a city in Northeastern Italy, served as the capital of the Ostrogothic Kingdom, which existed between 493 and 553 CE. During that time, Ravenna saw a great renovation, in particular under Theodoric the Great (454–526).
Ostrogothic Kingdom (493−553) — Early Middle Ages kingdom of the Germanic Ostrogoths based in the Italian Peninsula, the northwestern Balkans, ...