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1. Romulus Augustulus was the last Roman Emperor, after him the Roman Empire must rise and fall 10 times. (Web site)
2. Romulus Augustulus was deposed as Western Roman Emperor in 476 while still young. (Web site)

Roman Emperor

1. The idea is to cover every Roman emperor from Augustus to Romulus Augustulus in under two minutes.

Italy

1. The German Odoacer (433-493) captured and executed Orestes at Placentia and then executed his son Romulus Augustulus and was proclaimed king of Italy. (Web site)

Current Emperor

1. In 476 the German Odovacar staged a coup in which the current emperor, Romulus Augustulus was deposed. (Web site)

Western Emperor

1. In Constantinople, the Emperor Zeno agreed and Romulus Augustulus, the Western Emperor in name only, was allowed to retire.

Emperor

1. With the emperor far away, Orestes elevated his son Romulus to the rank of Augustus, so that the last Western Roman Emperor is known as Romulus Augustulus.
2. The boy was probably around 12 years old when he became Emperor and is ironically known to history as Romulus Augustulus, meaning Little Romulus. (Web site)

Western Roman Emperor

1. Before he became king he had been a general in the army of Romulus Augustulus, the Western Roman Emperor.

Deposition

1. Europe in 477 AD. Highlighted areas are Roman lands that survived the deposition of Romulus Augustulus.

Julius Nepos

1. For rulers of Italy after Romulus Augustulus and Julius Nepos, see list of barbarian kings. (Web site)
2. In 476 he established his son Romulus Augustulus as emperor, dispossessing the existing Western emperor, Julius Nepos. (Web site)

Odoacer

1. A later date, however, is sometimes assumed, viz., when Odoacer deposed Romulus Augustulus, the last of the Roman Emperors of the West, in 476. (Web site)

Western Roman Empire

1. I kid you not) Anthemius and Romulus Augustulus were emperors of the Western Roman Empire, Romulus actually being the last one of his kind. (Web site)
2. His reign saw the end of the Western Roman Empire under Julius Nepos and Romulus Augustulus, but he contributed much to stabilizing the eastern Empire. (Web site)
3. The Holy Roman Empire was a conscious attempt to revive the Western Roman Empire, considered to have ended with the abdication of Romulus Augustulus in 476.

Last Emperor

1. The last emperor of the west, Romulus Augustulus, was deposed by the barbarian king Odoacer in 476. (Web site)
2. Romulus Augustulus, last emperor of the Roman Empire, was imprisoned here after being overthrown in 476. (Web site)

Romulus Augustus

1. He is also known by his nickname "Romulus Augustulus", though he ruled officially as Romulus Augustus. (Web site)

Last Roman Emperor

1. When Odoacer deposed the last Roman emperor of the west (Romulus Augustulus), it was really his father and uncle who required assassination. (Web site)
2. The boy was probably no more than 10 years old, and, known to history as Romulus Augustulus, is usually considered the last Roman emperor in the west. (Web site)
3. The last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus (one feels it is symbolical) was deposed from his throne, A.D. 476, by the first Germanic king of Italy, Odoacar.

Romulus Augustulus

1. Odoacer the Barbarian became King of Italy and forced Romulus Augustulus to abdicate as the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. (Web site)
2. With the help of barbarians he deposed (475) the Roman emperor of the West, Julius Nepos, and raised his own son, Romulus Augustulus, to the throne. (Web site)
3. This date, the traditional “fall” of the Roman Empire, marks the murder of the last Roman emperor of the West, Romulus Augustulus, by the barbarians. (Web site)

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1. Last Roman Emperor
2. Government > Empires > Emperors > Last Emperor
3. Romulus Augustus
4. Politics > Government > Empires > Western Roman Empire
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