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Long before the Visigoths ruled Spain, another Germanic kingdom carved out its power in Roman Hispania.
Their king marched south, seized Roman cities, and built a realm from imperial ruins.
This is a thread on Rechila, king of the Suebi 🧵
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Long before the Visigoths ruled Spain, another Germanic kingdom carved out its power in Roman Hispania.
Their king marched south, seized Roman cities, and built a realm from imperial ruins.
This is a thread on Rechila, king of the Suebi 🧵
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When Rechila died in 448 in Emerita Augusta, he left behind a significantly expanded kingdom for his son Rechiar.
The Suebic Kingdom would continue to exist in various forms until 585, when it was finally annexed by the Visigoths.
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Eastern Roman history is so incredible because it had so many stages of winning, losing, defending, dramatic falls, & epic comebacks.
A stubborn entity that began as a superpower but died more like a city-state…it’s also such a long history with over a millennium to read about!
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A Gothic prince, raised in Constantinople as a diplomatic hostage, educated in the ways of the Eastern Roman Empire.
A king who ruled Italy from Ravenna after the fall of the West.
This is a thread on Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths. 🧵
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A Gothic prince, raised in Constantinople as a diplomatic hostage, educated in the ways of the Eastern Roman Empire.
A king who ruled Italy from Ravenna after the fall of the West.
This is a thread on Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths. 🧵
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Theodoric died in 526 leaving no strong successor.
His grandson Athalaric ruled as a child under his mother’s regency.
A decade later, Eastern Roman emperor Justinian launched the Gothic War to retake Italy.
After 20 years of conflict, the Ostrogothic kingdom was annihilated.
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