The Kingdom of Odoacer, officially the Kingdom of Italy, was the barbarian kingdom that Odoacer ruled from 476 to 493. It began when Odoacer deposed the last Western Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, and was proclaimed rex by his soldiers, an event traditionally taken to mark the end of the Western Roman Empire. Odoacer ruled Italy while styling himself a client of the Eastern emperor Zeno, who also granted him the title dux Italiae, and he worked with the Roman Senate. His forces took Sicily by agreement with the Vandals and defeated the Rugians in Noricum. Theodoric the Great, authorised by Zeno, besieged him at Ravenna and killed him in 493, then founded the Ostrogothic Kingdom.
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was a barbarian kingdom (476–493)
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was a barbarian kingdom (476-493)
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was a barbarian kingdom (476-493)
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The creation of the kingdom traditionally marks the end of the Western Roman Empire
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