World at War / Conflicts / Recorded History
World at War
Fall of the Western Roman Empire
376–476 AD
Western Europe
Status: ended
Casualties: Unknown
A century of breach: Adrianople 378, the sack of Rome 410 by Alaric, the Vandal sack 455, the deposition of Romulus Augustulus by Odoacer in 476. The Eastern Empire endured another thousand years.
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Belligerents
- Western Rome
- Visigoths (Alaric)
- Vandals (Geiseric)
- Ostrogoths (Theodoric)
- Huns
Casualties
Unknown
From World at War, an interactive atlas by Jairus Pereira.
Figures are approximate, drawn from Wikipedia, UCDP, ACLED and academic sources — a design
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