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  King of Italy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
King of Italy is a title adopted by many rulers after the fall of the Roman Empire.
Pippin of Italy, third son of Charlemagne, is crowned King of Italy by Pope Hadrian I in 781.
His son held the title "King of Rome," but there was no "Kingdom of Rome"; rather, the title was bestowed on him as heir to Napoleon's throne, somewhat as the title Prince of Wales is traditionally awarded to the heir to the British throne.
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 Barbarian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Barbarian is used in its Hellenic sense by Paul in the New Testament (Romans 1:14) to describe non-Greeks, and to describe one who merely speaks a different language (1 Corinthians 14:11).
The barbarian is technically a social parasite on civilization, who depends on settlements as a source of slaves, surpluses and portable luxuries: booty, loot and plunder.
The culture of the nomad is not to be confused with the barbarian, either.
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 Western Roman Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
By the end of the Crisis of the Third Century this stagnation of Italy could easily be seen in the provincial born Emperors such as Trajan and Hadrian.
Economic problems only grew for Italy as time continued, and it eventually spread into much of the rest of the west, especially Gaul, whose industries, particularly the pottery industry, began to suffer tremendously as the 4th century wore on.
Most barbarian lords required the Roman subjects in the provinces they conquered to give a third of their land as tribute when they conquered an area, and this could turn into much more, as different lords conquered that same land and demanded similar tribute.
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 Barbarian article - Barbarian Greek malapropism Testament savage Scythian Eastern Gauls Romans - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Barbarian was originally a disparaging term applied to a foreigner, one not sharing a recognized culture or degree of polish with the speaker or writer employing the term.
Barbarian is used in its Hellenic sense by Paul in the New Testament (Romans 1:14 KJV) to describe non-Greeks, and to describe one who merely speaks a different language (1 Corinthians 14:11 KJV).
The Romans indiscriminately regarded the nomadic Germanic peoples, the settled Gauls, and the raiding Huns as barbarians all, while the Han Chinese of the Chinese Empire have regarded the Xiongnu, Tatars, Turks, Mongols, Jurchen, Manchu, and Europeans as barbaric.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Italy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Italy has the characteristic shape of a riding hoot, of which the top is represented by the Alps, the seam by the Apennines, and the toe, the heel, and the spur, respectively, by the peninsulas of Calabria, Salento, and Gargano.
Italy was comforted by all the civilized nations, and especially the United States, which built a town in the beautiful district of Santa Cecilia, in the neighbourhood of Messina, with nearly 1500 frame houses, after the fashion of Swiss chalets, prettily finished, and painted in white.
In peninsular and in insular Italy the winter rains, on the contrary, are heaviest, and the absence of drainage causes the waters that overflow from the river-beds to inundate the lowlands of the coast and thereby to develop malaria.
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 barbarian | TutorGig.co.uk Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
'Barbarian' was originally a Greek term applied to any foreigner, one not sharing a recognized culture or language with the speaker or writer employing the term.
The modern sympathetic admiration for such fantasy barbarians is a direct descendant of the Enlightenment idealization of the " Noble Savage".
Attila: A Barbarian King and the Fall of Rome
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 Roman Empire Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In Italy, he constructed a winter port at Ostia, thereby providing a place for grain from other parts of the Empire to be brought in inclement weather.
Theodoric the Great as King of the Goths, couched his legitimacy in diplomatic terms as being the representative of the Emperor of the East.
Italy, Illyria and Africa were officially administrated by his brother and his step-mother Justina.
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 Welcome to Italy1 History Page La Storia Italiana in Inglese   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Italy, history of since earliest times the history of Italy has been influenced by cultural and political divisions resulting from the peninsula's disparate geography and by circumstances that made Italy the scene of many of Europe's most important struggles for power.
Peninsular Italy was administered from its capital at RAVENNA as merely one division of the empire, although the Byzantines gradually and grudgingly admitted the ecclesiastical primacy of Rome in the West.
The papal-imperial conflict culminated in 1262 with a papal invitation to Charles of Anjou, brother of King Louis IX of France, to conquer Sicily.
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The Romans ruled the vast Roman Empire untill it was overthrown by barbarian invaders during the 5th century A.D..
Italy and the rest of the Roman Empire was thrown into the dark ages.
In 1943 Italy surrendered to the Allies and the Fascist government was overthrown.
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 Barbarian -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Barbarian was originally a (A native or inhabitant of Greece) Greek term applied to any foreigner, one not sharing a recognized culture or degree of polish with the speaker or writer employing the term.
Historic examples are the (A member of a Germanic people who invaded northern Italy in the 6th century) Lombards and the (The Tungusic language spoken by the Manchu people) Manchu.
The modern sympathetic admiration for such fantasy barbarians is a direct descendent of the (Education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge) Enlightenment idealization of the " (Click link for more info and facts about Noble Savage) Noble Savage".
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/barbarian.htm   (631 words)

  
 Barbarian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Barbarian was originally a disparaging term applied to a foreigner, one not sharing a recognizedculture or degree of polish with the speaker or writer employing the term.
Barbarian is used in its Hellenic sense by Paul in the NewTestament (Romans 1:14 KJV) to describenon-Greeks, and to describe one who merely speaks a different language (1 Corinthians 14:11 KJV).
The Greeks admired Scythian and Eastern Gauls as heroic individuals, but considered their culture to be barbaric.The Romans indiscriminately regarded the nomadic Germanic peoples, the settled Gauls,and the raiding Huns as barbarians all, while the Han Chinese of the Chinese Empire have regarded the Xiongnu, Tatars, Turks, Mongols, Jurchen, Manchu, and Europeans as barbaric.
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 Barbarian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
For the Rugby union team, see Barbarian F.C. Barbarian was originally a Greek term applied to any foreigner, one not sharing a recognized culture or degree of polish with the speaker or writer employing the term.
The Romans indiscriminately regarded the various Germanic tribes, the settled Gauls, and the raiding Huns as barbarians all, while the Han Chinese of the Chinese Empire have regarded the Xiongnu, Tatars, Turks, Mongols, Jurchen, Manchu, and Europeans as barbaric.
Japanese people called the Europeans nanban, literally Barbarians from the South, because the Portuguese ships appeared to sail from the South.
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 Papal Elections
The occasion for the interference of the Roman emperors and later of the kings of Italy was afforded by disputed elections to the papal chair.
The interference of the secular power was always distasteful to the Roman clergy, as shown by their unwillingness to observe decrees on the subject made even by popes, as in the case of Simplicius and others.
The example of the Roman emperors was followed by the barbarian kings of Italy, of whom the first to interfere was Theodoric the Ostrogoth, at the election of Symmachus in 498.
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 King Of Italy Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
From 962 until 1806, the kingdom of Italy was subsumed into the Holy Roman Empire, and the emperors were also kings of Italy.
However, after the reign of Frederick Barbarossa (1152-1190), imperial authority in Italy was increasingly challenged by Italian city states and the Emperors had to base their rule on cooperation with some of these states.
His son Napoleon II held the title "King of Rome," but there was no "Kingdom of Rome"; rather, the title was bestowed on him as heir to Napoleon's throne in emulation of the title "King of the Romans" in the Holy Roman Empire.
www.karr.net /encyclopedia/King_of_Italy   (629 words)

  
 List of barbarian kings of Italy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term "barbarian" is more applicable to the Lombards than it is to Odoacer and to the Gothic kings:
Odoacer (476-493), dux Italiae until the death of Julius Nepos (480), then self-styled rex Italiae, with the fiction that he was simply the representative in Italy of the Eastern emperor Zeno.
Lombard Kings in Italy: the Lombards leaders were Kings of the Lombards and kings in Italy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_barbarian_kings_of_Italy   (156 words)

  
 Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The concept of the Roman Empire was renewed in the West with the coronation of the king of the Franks, Charlemagne, as Roman emperor by the Pope on Christmas Day, 800.
He was the last Emperor to rule over a united empire; the distribution of the East to his son Arcadius and the West to his son Honorius after his death in 395 represented a permanent division.
Though during his own lifetime Odoacer maintained the legal fiction that he was actually ruling Italy as the viceroy of Zeno, historians mark 476 as the traditional date of the fall of the Roman Empire in the West.
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Once Odoacer was killed in 493, Theoderic was already king of the Ostrogoths and rule of Italy, regardless of Eastern recognition, and the Eastern court had no choice but to comply.
From then on, the rule of Italy was passed on through his dynasty with the kingship of the Ostrogoths.
The Byzantine reconquest of the West began in Italy during the reign of King Witigis, who was fairly successful in repelling the Roman and Byzantine forces.
www.ghg.net /shetler/rome/rulers/barbarians.html   (509 words)

  
 History of Florence, Italy
It was during the reign of Julius Caesar that Florence came into existence, in the year 59 B.C. he established a colony along the narrowest stretch of the Arno, which is the point where the famous "ponte vecchio" crosses the Arno.
Most of Italy came under the rule of the Emperor, and this led to future conflicts between the Emperor and the Pope that was to drive the Italians into their own version of a civil war.
During the re-unification of Italy in the 19th century it was made temporarily capital of Italy, until Rome finally joined the newly created Italy.
www.tours-italy.com /florence/history_florence.htm   (623 words)

  
 Read about Barbarian at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Barbarian and learn about Barbarian here!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A non-pejorative, simply functional concept of "barbarian", as sociologists have redefined the term, depends upon a carefully-defined use of "
role-playing games, barbarians (or berserkers) are depicted as brave uncivilized warriors, often able to attack with a crazed fury.
The modern sympathetic admiration for such fantasy barbarians is a direct descendent of the
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 Proyectos ADN Hispanos y Geograficos provided by Bravenet.com
By the end of the Crisis of the Third Century this stagnation of Italy could easily be seen in the provincial born EmperorsTrajan and Hadrian.
When Justinian I6th century AD, his efforts proved extremely costly as most of the areas "reconquered" were saturated with barbarians, and due to the ongoing (and accelerated) economic decline these provinces had experienced under barbarian rule, they proved to be bottomless pits both in manpower and money.
The instability caused by usurpers throughout the Western Empire helped the barbarians in their conquests, and as the 5th century475, Orestes, a former secretary of Attila the Hun drove the emperor Julius Nepos out of Ravenna and proclaimed his son Romulus Augustus to be Emperor.
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 Tetrarchy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The four Tetrarchs based themselves not at Rome but in other cities closer to the frontiers, mainly intended as headquarters for the defence of the empire against bordering rivals (notably Sassanian Persia) and barbarians (mainly Germanic and Berber tribes).
Maximian was to retire, and Maxentius was declared a usurper.
Maxentius had become de facto ruler of Italy and Africa by 308 anyway, even if he was deprived of imperial rank.
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 Articles - Emperor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
On 25 December, 800, Charles I, King of the Franks, was crowned Emperor by Pope Leo III in Rome.
King Sancho III of Navarre declared himself emperor of Spain in 1034.
In English, the Shahnshah title is usually translated as "King" for ancient rulers of the Achaemenid, Arsacid, and Sassanid dynasties, and is shortened to "Shah" for rulers since the Safavid dynasty in the 16th century.
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 Witiges - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
540) was the king of the Ostrogoths from 536 to 540.
He succeeded to the throne of Italy in the midst of the Gothic War, as Belisarius had quickly captured Sicily the previous year and was currently in southern Italy at the head of the forces of Justinian I, the Eastern Emperor.
Witiges was the husband of Amalasuntha's only surviving child, Mathesuentha, a marriage designed to bolster his claim to kingship.
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 Royalty.nu - Royal History - Empire of the Franks - Merovingian Dynasty
A Salian king named Merovech (or Merovee) founded the royal Merovingian dynasty, whose kings were notable for their long hair.
According to The History of the Franks by sixth century writer Gregory of Tours, Merovech's son Childeric I "was excessively wanton, and being king of the Franks he began to dishonor their daughters." For this bad behavior, Childeric's subjects drove him out of his kingdom.
Texts and ordines for the coronation of Frankish and French kings and queens in the Middle Ages (the texts are not translated from Latin).
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 The Ostrogothic kingdom (from Italy) --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
History > Italy in the early Middle Ages > The late Roman Empire and the Ostrogoths > The Ostrogothic kingdom
Odoacer was conquered and killed by Theoderic, king of the Ostrogoths (489–526).
The decades of the Ostrogothic kingdom in Italy (489–552) can be seen as the first true period of Germanic rule in the peninsula, for an entire tribe of 100,000 to 200,000 people came with Theoderic.
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 Ildibad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
541) was a king of the Ostrogoths in Italy, being chosen to replace Witiges, who had been engaged in complicated schemes with Belisarius and had left Ravenna.
Ildibald reigned for only about a year before being killed by a Gepid at a palace banquet.
Ildibad was actually a Visigoth, a nephew of one of the Visigothic kings in Spain.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Lex
The "Lex Romana Burgundionum" is due to the initiative of Gundobad, King of the Burgundians (died 516).
The "Lex Barbara Burgundionum" belongs to the fifth century and is attributed to King Gundobad, who promulgated the "Lex Romana Burgundionum"; under the Carlovingians it was ordinarily called the "Lex Gundeboda", law of Gondebaud, whence its French name, "Loi Gombette".
It was revised by King Grimoald in 668 and by King Liutprand between 713 and 735, while additions to it were made by King Ratchis in 745-46 and King Aistulf in 755.
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This month's newsletter describes how 'barbarians' invaded the Roman Empire by a process of steady infiltration, coming as asylum seekers and economic migrants, rather than in the form of roaming warbands as is traditionally pictured.
Secondly, while the first barbarian migrants were slaves or took on menial jobs, such as farm labourer, the barbarians in time rose to the highest positions and in fact were really the people responsible for keeping the empire going.
Thirdly, the barbarians took over all the technologies, institutions and social practices of Rome, remaining distinctive only in a few very precise areas, such as the clothes that they wore.
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