On September 4, 476 AD, a Germanic chieftain named Odoacer walked into the imperial palace at Ravenna and accepted the abdication of a teenage boy. Romulus Augustulus had held the title of Western Roman Emperor for less than a year. Odoacer sent him into comfortable exile near Naples with a pension, declined to appoint a ... The post The Last Roman Emperor Was Sixteen Years Old and Nobody Came to Save Him appeared first on History Collection.
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