In September 476 Odoacer entered Ravenna, deposed the young Romulus Augustulus, and sent him into comfortable exile in Campania — marking the end of the Roman Empire in the West. Odoacer chose to give lip service to Zeno's authority rather than install a new puppet emperor, sending the western imperial insignia to Constantinople. Brownworth notes that contemporaries likely did not realize the magnitude of the watershed moment.
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In September 476 Odoacer entered Ravenna, deposed the young Romulus Augustulus, and sent him into comfortable exile in Campania — marking the end of the Roman Empire in the West. Odoacer chose to give lip service to Zeno's authority rather than install a new puppet emperor, sending the western imperial insignia to Constantinople. Brownworth notes that contemporaries likely did not realize the magnitude of the watershed moment.
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