Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes (Herulic – Scirian foederati), is proclaimed rex Italiae ("King of Italy") by his troops.

The Heruli were one of the smaller Germanic peoples of Late Antiquity, appearing in records from the third to sixth centuries AD. The best recorded group of Heruli established a kingdom north of the Middle Danube, in or near present day Lower Austria, together with the kingdom of the Rugii. These two kingdoms were among several which precipitated out of the Hun empire, following the death of Attila in 453 and the Battle of Nedao in 454.

After the conquest of this Heruli kingdom by the Lombards, which happened in the period 493-511, splinter groups moved to Scandinavia and the region near present day Belgrade, which was at that time under Eastern Roman control.

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Roman Empire 125 (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
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Scandza (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
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Huns450 (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
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Roman Austria (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

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Sources and further reading: Wikipedia — Heruli, Odoacer, Sciri, Foederati (CC BY-SA). Images: Wikimedia Commons.