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	Odoacer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Odoacer was the son of the Scirian chieftain Edeko, who was a Germanic vassal chieftain at the court of Attila.
		Odoacer, was a regular warrior in the foederati, but as the son of Edeko, always remained a nobleman among the Scirii.
		Odoacer was the leader of the revolt against Orestes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Odoacer (1179 words)

	Odoacer - LoveToKnow 1911
		ODOACER, or Odovacar (c„ 434-493), the first barbarian ruler of Italy on the downfall of the Western empire, was born in the district bordering on the middle Danube about the year 434.
		In the history of the papacy Odoacer figures as the author of a decree promulgated at the election of Felix II.
		Odoacer then shut himself up in Ravenna, and there maintained himself for four years, with one brief gleam of success, during which he emerged from his hiding-place and fought the battle of the Addua (11th August 490), in which he was again defeated.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Odoacer (1804 words)

	Romulus Augustus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Odoacer petitioned for the position of viceroy in Italy.
		Odoacer's solicitation was accepted under the condition that he become Italy's viceroy for the legitimate Western Emperor Julius Nepos.
		Following Odoacer's coup, the Roman Senate sent a letter to Zeno, saying that "the majesty of a sole monarch is sufficient to pervade and protect, at the same time, both the East and the West."
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Romulus_Augustus (1313 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 10 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Odoacer took up his residence at Ravenna, and, according to his promise, divided one third of the soil of Italy among his- barbarian followers, a measure which was perhaps less cruel towards the Italians than it would appear, since the country was depopulated, and many estates without an owner and lying waste.
		Odoacer reunited Dalmatia with the kingdom of Italy after a sharp contest, in which he employed both a fleet and an army.
		Odoacer again took refuge in Ravenna, and Theodoric laid siege to that city, while his lieutenants gradually re duced the whole kingdom of Italy.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2344.html (991 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Odoacer
		Odoacer (435 – 493), also known as Odovacar (Germanic Audawakrs, meaning watchful of wealth) was the half Hunnish, half Scirian chieftain of the Germanic Heruli.
		With all of these Odoacer was connected by his subsequent career, and all seem, more or less, to have claimed him as belonging to them by birth; the evidence slightly preponderates in favor of his descent from the Scyrri.
		Odoacer then shut himself up in Ravenna, and there maintained himself for four years, with one brief gleam of success, during which he emerged from his hiding-place and fought the battle of the Addua (11th August 490), in which he was again.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Odoacer (2480 words)

	Odoacer
		Odoacer, also known as Odovacar (435-493) was the half Hunnish, half Scyrrian chieftain of the Germanic Heruli.
		However, Odoacer also styled himself rex Italiae (King of Italy) and was recognized as such for the rest of his life.
		Nevertheless, relations between Odoacer and the East Romans later deteriorated, and in 489, with the emperor Zeno's encouragement, the Ostrogoths under Theodoric the Great invaded Odoacer's kingdom, destroyed his army of barbarian foederati (and a few surviving Roman forces) and forced his surrender in 493.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/od/Odoacer.html (252 words)

	Rome - Vol III, Chapter XXXVI, Part 6
		His brother Odoacer led a wandering life among the Barbarians of Noricum, with a mind and a fortune suited to the most desperate adventures; and when he had fixed his choice, he piously visited the cell of Severinus, the popular saint of the country, to solicit his approbation and blessing.
		Odoacer passed the Adriatic, to chastise the assassins of the emperor Nepos, and to acquire the maritime province of Dalmatia.
		After a reign of fourteen years, Odoacer was oppressed by the superior genius of Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths; a hero alike excellent in the arts of war and of government, who restored an age of peace and prosperity, and whose name still excites and deserves the attention of mankind.
	www.cca.org /cm/rome/vol3/ch3606.html (2933 words)

	Odoacer. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Odoacer defeated the Roman general Orestes at Piacenza, took Ravenna (the West Roman capital), and deposed Romulus Augustulus, last Roman emperor of the West (until the coronation in 800 of Charlemagne).
		However, Odoacer’s action made little difference in the status of Western Rome, which had long been prey to the barbarian armies; the emperors had been mere puppets.
		Invited to a banquet by Theodoric, Odoacer and his son and chief officers were treacherously assassinated; thus Theodoric made himself master of Italy.
	www.bartleby.com /65/od/Odoacer.html (262 words)

	Odoacer Encyclopedia Article @ GreatArtworks.com (Great Artworks) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Odoacer raised an Italic-Germanic army with whom he defeated the Vandals in Sicily and conquered the whole island by 477.
		Odoacer's kingdom began to expand, his popularity amongst the Italic people grew further and his pacts with the Franks and Visigoths gave him more influence.
		Odoacer destroyed the Rugian kingdom, that was established in Noricum, but did not incoperate it into his kingdom.
	www.greatartworks.com /encyclopedia/Odoacer (1269 words)

	ODOACER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Odoacer was the German commander of the Roman army who deposed the last Roman emperor (476) which meant that the Western Roman Empire ceased to exist.
		Odoacer was proclaimed king by his troops in 476 and a few days later Orestes was captured and killed.
		Odoacer became the first barbarian king of Italy but by 489 Theodoric the Ostrogoth invaded Italy after the Eastern emperor had appointed him king of Italy.
	www.hyperhistory.com /online_n2/people_n2/ppersons3_n2/odoacer.html (94 words)

	Odoacer - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Odoacer (ad 435?-493?), Gothic chieftain who received his military training in the Roman army and became the first Germanic ruler of Italy.
		In ad 476 Germanic troops in Italy mutinied and elected a Gothic commander, Odoacer, as king.
		Odoacer, who was the first Germanic ruler of the...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Odoacer.html (56 words)

	Odoacer Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Odoacer was born into a Germanic tribe, the Scirians, and was probably the younger son of Edico, an important person under Attila the Hun.
		Although Odoacer had not actually aided the rebel, Zeno regarded his actions as hostile and decided to break his power by sending the Germanic tribe of the Rugians against him (487).
		Odoacer defeated the Rugians, and Zeno turned for assistance to Theodoric, ruler of the Ostrogoths.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/odoacer (440 words)

	Eureka -- Vol 2 -- Chap 8 -- Sec 9 : 2. Historical Exposition
		He gratefully accepted the imperial ensigns, the sacred ornaments of the throne and palace, which the Patrician Odoacer was not unwilling to remove from the sight of the people.
		The country was exhausted by the irretrievable losses of war, famine, and pestilence; and Gelasius, the Roman bishop, and one of Odoacer’s subjects, affirms, that in Aemilia, Tuscany, and the adjacent provinces, the human species was almost extirpated.
		The plebeians of Rome, who were fed by the hand of their master, perished or disappeared, as soon as his liberality was suppressed; and the senators, "the stars" of the Roman firmament, bewailed their private loss of wealth and luxury.
	www.west.net /~antipas/eureka/eureka_2/eu_chapter08/c8_s9_2.html (1693 words)

	odovacar - Google Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Odoacer (435–493), also known as Odovacar (Germanic Audawakrs, meaning watchful of wealth), was King of Italy (476-493), and deposed the last Western Roman...
		Odoacer - Odoacer or Odovacar, c.435–493, chieftain of the Heruli, the Sciri,...
		Odoacer - Odoacer or Odovacar, c.435–493, chieftain of the Heruli, the Sciri, and the Rugii (see.
	www.mainseek.com /odovacar.html (116 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Julius Nepos
		When Odoacer captured Ravenna, killed Orestes and deposed Romulus on September 4, 476, he proclaimed himself ruler of Italy and asked the eastern emperor Zeno to legalize his position as patricius of the Roman Empire and Zeno viceroy of Italy.
		Almost immediately, Odoacer invaded Dalmatia, defeated a force led by the Roman general Ovida on December 9, and added the province to his own kingdom.
		Adding fuel to the suspicions about Glycerius is a report that Odoacer then made him bishop of Mediolanum (modern Milan).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Julius-Nepos (1497 words)

	Zeno
		Odoacer now demanded recognition as ruler of Italy, though at least offered to do so in the name of the eastern empire.
		Was Odoacer's submission to the eastern throne purely a theoretical one, with little practical meaning, it at least allowed for the hope in the east of one day recovering the Italian territories from the Germans.
		Zeno recognized Odoacer as a patrician (patricius) and ruler of Italy, though insisted on Julius Nepos continuing, though in exile, as emperor of the west.
	www.roman-empire.net /constant/zeno.html (960 words)

	Wikinfo \| Julius Nepos
		When Odoacer captured Ravenna, killed Orestes and deposed Romulus on September 4, 476, he proclaimed himself King of Italy and asked the eastern emperor Zeno to legalize his position as a patrician officer of the Roman Empire.
		The first was that Nepos, in about 479, began to plot against Odoacer, hoping to regain control of Italy for himself.
		Adding fuel to the suspicions about Glycerius is a report that Odoacer then made him bishop of the large city of Mediolanum (modern Milan).
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Julius_Nepos (643 words)

	Famous Men of the Middle Ages - Theodoric the Ostrogoth (by John H. Haaren (John Henry))
		Odoacer had heard of their coming and he got ready an army to drive them away.
		He said he had as good a right to be king of Italy as Odoacer, and he would remain and conquer the country and be its king.
		She made them feel that it was a shame for them to desert their leader, and they at once returned to the field and fought beside their king until the battle was won.
	www.authorama.com /famous-men-of-the-middle-ages-7.html (1264 words)

	Odoacer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He is best knownto history as the man who deposed the last Roman emperor in the West, Romulus Augustus, in 476.Romulus Augustus was sent to retirement at Lucullanum at the Bay of Naples.
		After deposing Romulus, Odoacer (Germanic Audawakrs, meaning watchful of wealth) had a choice of eitherappointing a new figurehead emperor and ruling through him, or ruling as an agent of the eastern Roman emperor.
		Nevertheless, relations between Odoacer and the East Romans later deteriorated, and in 489, with the emperor Zeno's encouragement, the Ostrogoths under Theodoric the Great invaded Odoacer's kingdom, destroyed his army of barbarian foederati (and a few surviving Roman forces)and forced his surrender in 493.
	www.therfcc.org /odoacer-63018.html (264 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Romulus Augustulus
		Odoacer was proclaimed king by his troops and marched against Ravenna where Romulus waited in fear.
		Odoacer spared his life, gave him a year's income, and sent him with his relatives to Cape Misenum opposite Baia.
		Odoacer now reigned as first King of Italy, while three deposed emperors dragged out inglorious and powerless lives: Romulus Augustulus in private life on his estate in Campania, Glycerius as Bishop of Salona, and Julius Nepos as commander in Dalmatia.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13179c.htm (543 words)

	ODOACER, or ODOVACAR (... - Online Information article about ODOACER, or ODOVACAR (...
		With all of these Odoacer was connected by his subsequent career, and all seem, more or less, to have claimed him as be-longing to them by See also:
		Odoacer entered the Rugian territory, defeated Feletheus, and carried him and" his noxious wife" Gisa prisoners to Ravenna.
		Odoacer then shut himself up in Ravenna, and there maintained himself for four years, with one brief gleam of success, during which he emerged from his hiding-See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /NUM_ORC/ODOACER_or_ODOVACAR_c_434_493_.html (2543 words)

	Odoacer, Italy's First Barbarian Ruler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Odoacer emerged as leader of the rebel movement, and in 476 he became the first barbarian ruler in Italy, with substantially all of the Italian mainland under his command.
		In subsequent campaigns Odoacer advanced first into Dalmatia in 481, then into the homeland of the Rugians to the north in 487.
		These expansionist trends soon provoked the concern of the Byzantine [Eastern Roman] Empire, as well as the ambition of Theodoric, whose Ostrogoth kingdom lay northeast of Italy.
	www.boglewood.com /sicily/odoacer.html (285 words)

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