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States and territories disestablished in the 5th century
- OdoacerThe name Odoacer remains a puzzle for historians, with no single origin story accepted as fact. Some scholars trace the word to Germanic roots meaning luck…
- Indo-Scythian KingdomIn the second century BCE, a nomadic group known as the Yuezhi fled westward after being defeated by the Xiongnu tribe of Mongolia.
- HunsIn the 18th century, French scholar Joseph de Guignes became the first to propose a link between the Huns and the Xiongnu people.
- Roman BritainIn 55 BC, Julius Caesar landed on the coast of Kent with two legions and a small cavalry force. He intended to conquer Britain as part of his Gallic Wars but…
- Dalmatia (Roman province)In 229 BC, Roman galleys sailed into the Adriatic Sea to confront pirates operating from the coast of modern-day Albania and Croatia.
- HispaniaRoman coins struck during the reign of Hadrian depict a female figure with a rabbit at her feet. Strabo called the region the land of the rabbits in his…
- Gallia NarbonensisThe Roman province known as Gallia Narbonensis stretched from the Pyrenees Mountains on the west to the Alps on the east.
- Ancient RomeArchaeological evidence of settlement around Rome starts to emerge in the middle of the 8th century BC. Large-scale organisation appears only then, with the…
- Western Roman EmpireIn 395, the Roman Empire split into two distinct courts when Emperor Theodosius I died. His son Honorius inherited the western half while his brother…
- RaetiaLivy stated in his history that the Raetians were of Etruscan origin. This belief was supported by historians Niebuhr and Mommsen centuries later.
- Roman EmpireIn 27 BC, the Roman Senate granted Octavian overarching military power and bestowed upon him a new title. This single act marked his accession as the first…
- Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity)The year 321 BC marks the moment when Orontes III and Mithridates of Lesser Armenia declared their independence, transforming a satrapy into two distinct…
- Africa (Roman province)In 146 BC, the Roman Republic destroyed Carthage after a brutal Third Punic War. Scipio Aemilianus led the final assault that turned the great city into ash.
- Sicilia (Roman province)In 264 BC, a group of Campanian mercenaries known as the Mamertines seized control of Messina. They killed and exiled the men of the city while holding the…
- Roman ItalyRoman mythology places the ancestral home of Aeneas in Italy, a land where his descendants Romulus and Remus would eventually found Rome.