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How Did the Goths Rule Roman Italy? - The Gothic King Who Preserved Roman Italy | Sleepy Facts About History
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In the spring of 493, a Gothic warlord named Theodoric murdered his rival, Odoacer, at a banquet table and claimed Italy for himself. Yet within months, this same conqueror was writing to the eastern emperor in Constantinople in the language of Roman restoration. For the next thirty-three years, Theodoric the Great governed a kingdom that had never quite existed before: a hybrid regime that preserved Roman civilian government under Gothic military authority. This episode explores the…
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