About this time the foederati, who had been quartered on the Italians all of these years, had grown weary of this arrangement. |
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In the middle stage, the Reges Gothorum saw themselves as something better than mere foederati. |
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Some Saxons already lived along the Saxon shore of Gaul as Roman foederati. |
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It was quite common for Rome to swell its legions with foederati recruited from the German homelands. |
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In the unrest that followed throughout Italy, the wives and children of the foederati were slain. |
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The last Western emperor, Romulus Augustulus, was deposed in 476 by a Germanic foederati general in Italy, Odoacer. |
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Their rule lasted for 78 years up to 534, when 400 eastern Roman troops led by Cyril, one of the officers of the foederati, retook the island. |
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Some Burgundians migrated westwards and settled as foederati in the Roman province of Germania Secunda along the Middle Rhine. |
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Yet other Rugii had already become foederati of Odoacer, who was to become the first Germanic king of Italy. |
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Honorius then incited the Roman population to massacre tens of thousands of wives and children of foederati Goths serving in the Roman military. |
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In 394 Alaric served as a leader of foederati under Theodosius I in the campaign which crushed the usurper Eugenius. |
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He used foederati forces such as the Alamanni to great effect. |
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After the Hunnic empire disintegrated, part of the Scirii joined with the Western Goths and the Eastern Goths, while others became foederati in the Roman empire. |
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As early as 380, a group of Huns was given Foederati status and allowed to settle in Pannonia. |
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However, Foederati states that had at one time been conquered by Rome were exempt from payment of tribute to Rome due to their treaty status. |
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After these invasions, the Huns begin to be noted as Foederati and mercenaries. |
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In 552, the Byzantines aided by a large contingent of Foederati, notably Lombards, Heruls and Bulgars, defeated the last Ostrogoths led by Teia in the Battle of Taginae. |
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