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States and territories disestablished in the 5th century
- OdoacerOdoacer, a barbarian soldier from the Middle Danube, changed the map of the ancient world on the 4th of September 476, when he forced the Western Roman child…
- Indo-Scythian KingdomThe Indo-Scythian Kingdom began with horsemen. Nomadic peoples of Iranic Scythian origin, they rode out of Central Asia and into the Indian subcontinent…
- HunsThe Huns arrived at the Volga River by 370 CE and within decades had shaken the foundations of the Roman world. They were a nomadic people from Central Asia…
- Roman BritainRoman Britain was one of the most distant and contested corners of the Roman Empire, a province that took the better part of four decades to conquer and…
- Dalmatia (Roman province)Dalmatia, the Roman province, takes its name from the Dalmatae, an Illyrian tribe who lived along the central eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea.
- HispaniaHispania was the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula, a stretch of land so far west that Roman writers sometimes called it Hesperia ultima, meaning the…
- Gallia NarbonensisBetween the Pyrenees and the Alps, and wrapping around the Gulf of Lion, lay Gallia Narbonensis. The Roman province covered most of the Rhône river's…
- Ancient RomeAncient Rome was never just marble and togas. Listen to how a swamp town became an empire, then follow the thread to Caesar and Augustus.
- Western Roman EmpireThe Western Roman Empire did not fall in a single dramatic moment. On the 4th of September 476, a Germanic military leader named Odoacer deposed a teenage…
- RaetiaRaetia was a province of the Roman Empire carved from the heart of the Alps, and Augustus himself had a preference for its wine above any other in the empire.
- Roman EmpireListen to the Roman Empire as more than emperors: the roads, the graffiti, and the slow unbraiding of a state that ran from Scotland to the Sahara.
- Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity)The Kingdom of Armenia endured for nearly eight centuries, from 331 BC to 428 AD, outlasting empires that most schoolchildren learn as the dominant powers of…
- Africa (Roman province)Africa, the Roman province, was said to feed the entire Roman populace for eight months of the year. Egypt supplied the remaining four months of grain.
- Sicilia (Roman province)Sicilia was the first province ever acquired by the Roman Republic, and the story of how Rome came to own it begins not with a grand strategy but with a band…
- Roman ItalyRoman Italy begins with a myth and ends with a deposition. In 476 AD, a young emperor named Romulus Augustulus was removed from power by a Germanic chieftain…