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	Julius Nepos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He chose Nepos, the governor of the province of Dalmatia, and in June 474, Nepos entered Ravenna, was accepted as emperor and forced Glycerius to step down.
		Nepos was, by all accounts, one of the more capable of the late western emperors, but he was unpopular with the Roman Senate, which disliked him for his close ties to the east.
		When Nepos made the mistake of appointing the untrustworthy Orestes as his master of soldiers, his lack of a western core of support came back to haunt him.
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	Julius Nepos: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He chose Nepos, the governor of the province of Dalmatia (A historical region of Croatia on the Adriatic Sea; mountainous with many islands), and in June 474, Nepos entered Ravenna, was accepted as emperor and forced Glycerius to step down.
		Nepos was, by all accounts, one of the more capable of the late western emperors, but he was unpopular with the Roman Senate (additional info and facts about Roman Senate), which disliked him for his close ties to the east.
		When Nepos made a mistake and appointed the untrustworthy Orestes ((Greek mythology) the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra; his sister Electra persuaded him to avenge Agamemnon's death by killing Clytemnestra and Aegisthus) as his master of soldiers, this came back to haunt him.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ju/julius_nepos.htm (551 words)

	<i>DIR</p> Nepos
		Julius Nepos was the son of Nepotianus, Master of Soldiers in the west ca.458-461, and the nephew of the patrician Marcellinus, Master of Soldiers in Dalmatia ca.
		Julius Nepos, true emperor in character no less than prowess, has done nobly in keeping the pledged word of his predecessor Anthemius that the labors of your brother should be recognized; his action is all the more laudable for the promptitude with which he has fulfilled a promise reiterated so often by another.
		For in 475 Nepos dispatched to Toulouse a delegation of four bishops from southern Gaul: Leontius of Arles, Faustus of Riez, Graecus of Marseilles, and Basilius of Aix.
	www.roman-emperors.org /nepos.htm (3195 words)

	Julius Nepos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Julius Nepos was the son of Nepotianus, who had been 'Master of Soldiers' in the reign of Avitus.
		Nepos then replaced his 'Master of Soldiers' Ecdicius, who was the son of former emperor Avitus, with Orestes, who had once been an assistant to Attila the Hun.
		Julius Nepos died on 9 May AD 480, assassinated by two of servants at his country house near Salonae (Solin).
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	Romulus Augustulus
		Nepos advanced with the fleet to Ravenna and forced Glycerius to become Bishop of Salona.
		Leo's successor, Zeno the Isaurian, withdrew the fleet which Nepos had had, and thus the latter was forced to depend upon his own resources, while the turmoil in Rome and Gaul constantly increased.
		He obtained the recognition of his son by the emperor of the Eastern Empire, made treaties for the protection of Italy with the German princes in Africa, Gaul, and Spain, and thus gained a few years of peace for the country.
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	JULIUS NEPOS - LoveToKnow Article on JULIUS NEPOS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		After capturing his rival Glycerius, who had been nominated by the army in 473, at the mouth of the Tiber, he was recognized as emperor in Rome, Italy and G^ul.
		The only event of the reign of Nepos was the inglorious cession to the Visigoths of the province of Auvergne.
		The emperor fled into Dalmatia, and continued to reside at Salona until his assassination by two of his own officers in 480, possibly at the instigation of Glycerius, who had been compelled to enter the church and had been appointed bishop of Salona.
	50.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NE/NEPOS_JULIUS.htm (2283 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Romulus Augustulus
		The reigning western emperor, Julius Nepos (474-475) had been appointed by the eastern emperors Leo (457-474) and Zeno (474-491), but had little tangible support either in the east or the west.
		In 475, Nepos replaced the Patrician and Master of Soldiers in the west, the Gaul Ecdicius, with Orestes, whose primary claim to fame had been service as the notarius (secretary) of Attila the Hun.
		Nepos, of course, never was able to reoccupy Italy, which remained in the hands of Odovacar.
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	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1159 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He had recalled Ecdicius from Gaul, and had appointed Orestes to be magister militum of that diocese in his place.
		NEPOS, MA'RIUS, expelled from the senate by Tiberius, a.
		NEPOS, P. VALE'RIUS, was one of the accusers of Milo, whom Cicero defended.
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	Rome - Vol III, Chapter XXXVI, Part 6
		The empress Verina, studious to promote the greatness of her own family, had married one of her nieces to Julius Nepos, who succeeded his uncle Marcellinus in the sovereignty of Dalmatia, a more solid possession than the title which he was persuaded to accept, of Emperor of the West.
		After extinguishing such a competitor, the emperor Nepos was acknowledged by the senate, by the Italians, and by the provincials of Gaul; his moral virtues, and military talents, were loudly celebrated; and those who derived any private benefit from his government, announced, in prophetic strains, the restoration of the public felicity.
		Nepos trembled at their approach; and, instead of placing a just confidence in the strength of Ravenna, he hastily escaped to his ships, and retired to his Dalmatian principality, on the opposite coast of the Adriatic.
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		Julius Nepos, however, was still recognized in the East and...
		Andr?y, Julius, Count Andrássy, Julius, Count, 1860-1929, Hungarian politician; son of the elder Count Andrássy.
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	Julius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There were many thousands of people bearing it, since the freedman took the gens name of their previous owners, thus many freedmen of the Julio-Claudian emperors received this name.
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	Northvegr - The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians
		Julius Nepos was at the same time demanding his help to recover Italy, and Nepos had a legitimate claim.
		This limited recognition was not what odovacar had hoped for; the express reserve of the rights of Julius Nepos was most unsatisfactory; there was always a chance that those rights might at a favourable moment be enforced.
		The death of Julius Nepos is an event which has some significance; it marks the cessation of a separate line of emperors in the west.
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	Romulus Augustus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Orestes was appointed "master of soldiers" by the Western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos in 475.
		It is interesting to note that Romulus was traditionally considered to be the founder of the city of Rome, and Augustus was the first Roman Emperor, and that the last (Western) emperor of Rome was coincidently named Romulus Augustus.
		Coins were struck under the name of Julius Nepos in the domains under the control of Roman general Syagrius until 480.
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	Encyclopedia: Julius Nepos
		Dalmatia (Croatian Dalmacija, Italian Dalmazia) is a region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, (mostly) in modern Croatia, spreading between the island of Rab in the northwest and the Bay of Kotor in the southeast.
		The Vandals were an East Germanic tribe that entered the late Roman Empire during the 5th century and created a state in North Africa, centered on the city of Carthage.
		The Roman Senate (Latin, Senatus) was a deliberative body which was important in the government of both the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.
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	Wikipedia: Romulus Augustus
		He was never recognized by the eastern Emperor Zeno, who continued to recognize Julius Nepos as emperor even after Orestes deposed him in 475.
		However, most modern accounts consider Romulus, and not Nepos, as the last emperor of the west.
		Romulus Augustus is the main character of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's play Romulus der Große (translated to english as "Romulus"), which revolves around the last days of Romulus' emperorship.
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	Julius Nepos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Julius Nepos rose to power at the behest of Leo, the eastern emperor.
		Nepos himself was to hold on to power for barely a year before he fled another approaching army of barbarians.
		Although without an army, subjects or any legislative power, Nepos would linger in near anonymity in Northern Italy until he was murdered in 480 by men from his own bodyguard, possibly in a plot involving former emperor Glycerius.
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	Romulus Augustus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In AD 474 emperor Julius Nepos made him 'Master of Soldiers' and raised him to the rank of patrician.
		Julius Nepos fled in August AD 475, leaving Italy to Orestes.
		The eastern empire refused to recognize the usurper and continued to support Julius Nepos who remained an exile in Dalmatia.
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	Julius Nepos -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Born of a distinguished family, Nepos was sent by the Eastern ruler Leo I to govern Italy as augustus (emperor).
		The first prime minister of an independent Tanganyika, Julius Nyerere was also a leader in the founding of the Organization of African Unity in 1963.
		Controversial and unconventional, U.S. author and educator Julius Lester embraced fl militancy in the social ferment of the 1960s—and later converted to Judaism.
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	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 42 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 475, while at Rome, he received orders from the emperor Julius Nepos to assemble an army and send it to Gaul, as fears were entertained that the West Gothic king Euric intended another invasion of that country.
		On his approach Nepos fled in confusion (28th of August, 475) to Salona in Dalmatia, where he met with the deposed emperor Glycerius, his former rival, who was then bishop of that place ; and on the 29th of August Orestes had his son Romulus Augustulus proclaimed emperor, remaining, however, at the head of affairs.
		He sent Latinus and Madusus to Constantinople, that he might be recognised by the emperor Zeno ; aud he made peace with Genseric, the king of the Vandals.
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	NEPOS, JULIUS - Online Information article about NEPOS, JULIUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		JULIUS, the last but one of the See also:
		The only event of the reign of Nepos was the inglorious cession to the Visigoths of the See also:
		standard of revolt and marched against Nepos at Ravenna.
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	Malaspina Great Books - Romulus Augustulus (c. 461-c.520?)
		At Ravenna Gundobad appointed the soldier Glycerius as emperor,; but Leo,; the Eastern Roman Emperor,; chose Julius Nepos, a relative of Empress Verina, who had succeeded his uncle Marcellinus as Governor of Dalmatia.
		Nepos fled to Dalmatia while Orestes entered Ravenna on 28 August,; 475.
		He obtained the recognition of his son by the emperor of the Eastern Empire, made treaties for the protection of Italy with the German princes in Africa, Gaul,; and Spain, and thus gained a few years of peace for the country.
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	The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire XXXVI
		Julius Nepos and Glycerius emperors of the West, A.D. Whilst the vacant throne of Italy was abandoned to lawless barbarians,
		Nepos trembled at their approach; and, instead of placing a just confidence in the strength of Ravenna, he hastily escaped to his ships, and retired to his Dalmatian principality, on the opposite coast of the Hadriatic.
		Odoacer passed the Hadriatic, to chastise the assassins of the emperor Nepos, and to acquire the maritime province of Dalmatia.
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	Vicendum Spotlight: Rome
		Julius Nepos was one of those puppets, put in power after a political coup led by the Eastern Empire took out the incumbent Emperor Glycerius.
		Nepos proved himself quite capable of ruling the Empire, showing a diplomatic flair that restored Provence to Roman rule and ended hostilities with the Visigoths.
		Nepos’ resounding victory over Odoacer restored the Western Empire unquestionably to Nepos, and a number of treaties signed in 480 officially set the boundaries of the Western Empire and officially recognized the Germanic kingdoms as independent.
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