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The Heruli ( spelled variously in Latin and Greek ) were an East Germanic tribe who migrated from Scandinavia to the Black sea in the third century.
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Heruli and were
His half-brother, the Praetorian Prefect Florianus, and Tacitus himself won a victory against these tribes, among which were the Heruli, which gained the emperor the title Gothicus Maximus.
It has also been suggested that it was Heruli who first colonized Iceland or were assimilated among the people of Uppland initiating the drastic changes there in the 6th century.
No " Heruli " are mentioned in Anglo-Saxon, Frankish or Norse chronicles, so it is assumed they were known in the north and west by another name.
According to Procopius, the Heruli were a polytheistic society known to practice human sacrifice.
Following the death of their husband, Heruli women were expected to commit suicide by hanging.
" The Batavi were an ancient Germanic tribe often mentioned by classical authors, and they were regularly associated with the Suebian marauders, the Heruli.
According to Procopius the Lombards were subject to the Heruli at this time and paid tribute.
Heruli and East
He was fighting against the Heruli when the army in the East elected Probus.
Heruli and Germanic
After a 10 year gap, the Goths, along with the Heruli, another Germanic tribe from Scandinavia, raiding on 500 ships, sacked Heraclea Pontica, Cyzicus and Byzantium.
According to Procopius, many Heruli migrated back to Scandinavia and settled beside the North Germanic Geats ( Gautoi ).
In 267, the Germanic tribe of Heruli defeated the Roman force that tried to stop them.
In fact they shared several similar characteristics with the Germanic Heruli people.
In the West, the office of emperor soon degenerated into being little more than a puppet of a succession of Germanic tribal kings, until finally the Heruli Odoacer simply overthrew the child-emperor Romulus Augustulus in 476, shipped the imperial regalia to the Emperor Zeno in Constantinople and became King of Italy.
* 476, Revolt of Heruli, Scirii and Turcilingi mercenaries, Battle of Ravenna, Execution of Orestes, Deposition of Western Emperor Romulus Augustulus, Germanic Heruli chieftain Odoacer becomes King of Italy, Fall of the Roman Empire, Roman usurper Basiliscus is killed by un-Roman Byzantine Emperor Zeno, End of the Dominate.
* 476, 4 September-Romulus Augustus, the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when the chieftain of the Germanic Heruli, Odoacer, proclaims himself King of Italy.
Heruli and who
Glycerius took up residence at Salona, which in 475 saw the arrival of Julius Nepos, who had retreated to Dalmatia in the face of a coup by Magister militum Orestes ; he was still in Salona when, in 476 Orestes ' son, the usurper Romulus Augustus, was deposed by Odoacer, King of the Heruli.
The Heruli later joined Odoacer, the commander of the Imperial foederati troops who deposed the last Western Roman Emperor Romulus Augustus in 476 AD.
Greece faced invasions from the Heruli, Goths, and Vandals during the reign of Theodosius I. Stilicho, who acted as regent for Arcadius, evacuated Thessaly when the Visigoths invaded in the late 4th century.
In 508 he fought with king Rodolph of the Heruli who was slain.
Heruli and from
It seems that, at first, a major naval expedition was led by Heruli, starting from northern Black Sea and leading in the ravaging of many cities of Greece ( among them, Athens and Sparta ).
* Florianus becomes Roman Emperor ; he breaks off his campaign against the Heruli and marches from the Bosporus with support from the Roman legions in Britain, Gaul, Spain and Italy to fight a indecisive battle with Marcus Aurelius Probus in Cilicia.
The following year Justinian sent his general Narses with a force of 35, 000 Lombards, Gepids and Heruli to Italy in a march around the Adriatic to approach Ravenna from the north.
Ischia suffered from the barbarian invasions, being taken first by the Heruli then by the Ostrogoths, being ultimately absorbed into the Eastern Roman Empire.
Greece faced invasions from the Heruli, Goths, and Vandals during the reign of Romulus Augustulus.
Heruli and Scandinavia
According to Procopius, the Heruli, after having raided the European continent for several generations, returned to Scandinavia in 512 AD as a result of military defeats.
Heruli and Black
* The Heruli invade the Black Sea coast, they unsuccessfully attack Byzantium and Cyzicus.
The first wave came during Gallienus ' reign ( 267 ) and started when the Heruli, raiding on 500 ships, ravaged the southern Black Sea coast and unsuccessfully attacked Byzantium and Cyzicus.
In the late 3rd Century, in the reign of Emperor Gallienus, a large raiding party, composed by Goths, Gepids and Heruli, launched itself in the Black Sea, raiding the coast of Anatolia and Thrace, and crossing into the Aegean Sea, plundering mainland Greece ( including Athens and Sparta ) and going as far as Crete and Rhodes.
Heruli and third
Several months after Orestes took power, a coalition of Heruli, Scirian and Turcilingi mercenaries demanded that he give them a third of the land in Italy.
Heruli and century
During the second century AD, a storehouse was constructed on the site of the Pompeion, but it was destroyed during the invasion of the Heruli in 267 AD.
Heruli and .
Nevertheless the Lombards viewed Italy as a rich land which promised great booty, assets Alboin used to gather together a horde which included not only Lombards but many other peoples of the region, including Heruli, Suebi, Gepids, Thuringii, Bulgars, Sarmatians, the remaining Romans and a few Ostrogoths.
Subsequently, the Heruli leader Naulobatus came to terms with the Romans.
* 491 – Odoacer makes a night assault with his Heruli guardsmen, engaging Theodoric the Great in Ad Pinetam.
Other peoples also accepted Christianity: the Heruli, the Huns dwelling near the Don, the Abasgi, and the Tzanni in Caucasia.
During his short reign he campaigned against the Goths and the Heruli, for which he received the title Gothicus Maximus.
* Battle of Nedao: Allied forces of subjected peoples ( Gepids, Heruli, Ostrogoths, Rugii, Scirii and Suebi ) under leadership of king Ardaric defeat the Huns under Ellac, eldest son of Attila the Hun, in Pannonia.
* July 9 – Odoacer makes a night assault with his Heruli guardsmen, engaging Theodoric the Great in Ad Pinetam.
Map of the Roman empire and contemporary indigenous Europe in AD 125, showing the location of the Heruli at the Denmark | Danish islands.
A western contingent of Heruli are mentioned at the mouth of the Rhine in 289.
The shield pattern of the Heruli seniores, a Late Roman military unit composed of Heruli.
Records indicate that the Heruli served in the armies of the Roman emperors for a number of years, in particular in the campaigns of Belisarius, when much of the old Roman territory, including Italy, Syria, and North Africa was recaptured.
Several thousand Heruli served in the personal guard of Belisarius throughout the campaigns.
Some noble Swedish families in the area also claim to be descendants of the returning Heruli.
Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 suggested that, since the name Heruli itself is identified by many with the Anglo-Saxon eorlas (" nobles "), Old Saxon erlos (" men "), the singular of which ( erilaz ) frequently occurs in the earliest Northern inscriptions, that " Heruli " may have been a title of honor.
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