The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler

Volume 4, The Medieval World.

Episode 14, Romano Barbaric Italy. Thank you. Oh, you know, you know, you know,

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Oh, you know. Oduachia is more commonly known in the English speaking world as Oduaysa.

In the Greek speaking world he is known as Oduacros.

Sometimes we see his name with the letter V. In it, too, so it reads, Odu Vise.

We have encountered him before as the first Western Roman Emperor who ruled after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

The fall of the Western Roman Empire

is commonly known to have happened in the year

476, although it wasn't necessarily the occasion that we reflectively

look back upon it as. In 476 simply speaking speaking, the Western Roman Emperor was deposed by Oduaccha, who took control of the Western Roman Empire himself.

This is not something uncommon in Western Roman Empire history.

A great many emperors were deposed over the centuries and replaced. So why was this occasion so special then?

The Romans had always had their of people, the barbarians were not a race of people,

the barbarians were a collective name that the Romans had for the less civilized tribes who lived across their northern frontiers and were partial to a bit of raiding of Roman territory. It just so happened that many of the barbarians were of a Germanic culture and language.

The concept of a German culture was first determined when Roman

scribes from the age of Julius Caesar sought to distinguish Gauls from their semi-nomadic neighbours.

Over time, many different Germanic tribal groups were made distinguishable

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