State · 476 – 493
Kingdom of Odoacer
A state of 476 – 493 — 17 years in Europe. It replaced Western Roman Empire. It was replaced by Ostrogothic Kingdom. The atlas records 3 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 2. Its line of rulers holds 2 people.
- Wikidata's English label: Kingdom of Italy.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 17 years
- 476 – 493
- Rulers
- 2
- the Monarch of Italy
- Within it
- 3
- recorded rows
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- Western Roman Empire · replaces · 285 – 476
After it
- Ostrogothic Kingdom · replaced by · 493 – 553
Rulers
The line of Monarch of Italy - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Odoacer | 476 – 493 | 17 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Theodoric the Great | 493 – 526 | 33 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death |
2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 476 – 526. Median reign 25 years. 0 of 1 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
400 – 4993 rows · 1 wars and battles
- Theodoric the Great · ruler · 454 – 526
- Odoacer · ruler · 433 – 493
- Battle of Ravenna · battle · 476
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood17 years
stood longer than 21% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median33 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 87% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record2
has more rulers on record than 34% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 466 – 503, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 485, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q3755547 (CC0) · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.