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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 NarbonensisThe Roman province known as Gallia Narbonensis stretched from the Pyrenees Mountains on the west to the Alps on the east.
- Ancient RomeAncient Rome began as a cluster of graves and a timber wall. The first burials in the necropolis on the Esquiline Hill appear around 800 BC.
- 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 EmpireThe Roman Empire was one of the most expansive and enduring political structures the ancient world produced, stretching from Hadrian's Wall in drizzle-soaked…
- 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)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 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…