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    Romulus Augustus (c. 465? – after 511), nicknamed Augustulus, was Roman emperor of the West from 31 October 475 until 4 September 476. Romulus was placed...
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  • considerable influence in the late Western Roman Empire. His son Romulus Augustulus became Roman Emperor of the West. Born to a Roman aristocratic family[citation...
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    Germanic foederati. Odoacer forced the abdication of the emperor Romulus Augustulus and became the first King of Italy. In 480, following the assassination...
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    Rather than take the throne himself, Orestes had his young son, Romulus Augustulus, crowned emperor. Orestes, who ruled in his son's name, found an enemy...
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    until he was murdered in 480. Though Nepos' successor in Italy, Romulus Augustulus (r. 475–476), is traditionally deemed the last western Roman emperor...
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    Magnentius, Eugenius and Magnus Maximus are sometimes called usurpers, but Romulus Augustulus is traditionally regarded as the last Western emperor, despite never...
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    Western Roman child emperor Romulus Augustulus and became the ruler of Italy (476–493). Odoacer's overthrow of Romulus Augustulus is traditionally understood...
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    the Eastern Empire. When Odoacer deposed the last Western Emperor, Romulus Augustulus, and sent the imperial regalia to Constantinople, he expressly acknowledged...
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    from the fall of the Roman Republic in 27 BC until the abdication of Romulus Augustulus in AD 476 in the West, and the Fall of Constantinople in the East...
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    Roman Empire is dated either from the de facto date of 476, when Romulus Augustulus was deposed by the Germanic Herulians led by Odoacer, or the de jure...
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