Italy's Lost Germanic Kingdom, the Ostrogoths
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- čas přidán 12. 06. 2024
- Italy did not go from the Romanian Empire to today's Italy in one jump - many things happened, including some very un-Italian rulers and peoples who helped shape what Italy is today. One of these were the Ostrogoths, who left a rich architectural legacy upon Northern Italy and Ravenna especially. These rulers came in to conflict with Byzantium and Justinian the Great's ambition after the fall of Theodoric the Great and dynastic troubles. In this video, we take a look at the wonderful history of these layered corner of post-Roman Europe between Rome and the coming of the Lombards.
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00:00 Beginning
02:21 Odoacer
07:59 Gaining power
15:57 Theodoric
19:49 Amalasuintha
23:31 Justinian's Gothic War
30:19 Fighting Back
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Keep up with the good work.As someone who loves Welsh History and studying it.Its also interesting to learn European history at the end of Rome's might.People in Britain don't realise Barbarian invasions was one of the reasons Rome left the British Isles.The Huns Ostrigoths among others.Also the reason for Angles and Saxons to arrive in Britain.
Congratulations for the clips about the history of Europe.
Subscribed, i really love this man style of telling history.🎉
Thank you very much.
Une autre bonne capsule intéressante 😮
Merci!
Merci pour le regarde. Peut-être un sur les burgondes, aussi.
Interesting take and comparison with our modern time. I like this !
Thank you for a truly fascinating video. 👍
You are welcome.
I like how you described Westminister, Welsh guy. Subscribed!
Thank you for joining the journey.
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When I was in adolescence, I read Felix Dahn's novel "A Struggle For Rome", which describes the Ostrogoth Kingdom between the death of Theoderic the Great and the battle of Mons Lactarius (a.k.a. Battle of Mons Vesuvius).
Glad people have written stories set in the place and time. Fascinating.
It was marvellous. A beautiful story ❤️
Wonderful that you watched and enjoyed. Thank you.
Excellent job! Thanks. If you could create a similarly detailed video on the Lombards, well, that would be sweet!
I will be doing so, at some point. And thank you.
I am surprised that you don't mention Dietrich von Bern saga!!!😊
We Istrians have connections with the Ostrogoths and there is one concrete proof from that period in Italy on this matter, in Ravenna, Theodoric's mausoleum was constructed of the Istrian stone, the same mausoleum in Ravenna was constructed in 520 AD by the Ostrogothic king Theodoric (his Latin name is Flavius Theodoricus), he was the king of the Ostrogoths (488-526) and regent of the Visigoths (511-526)
Ostro-Goats
Ostrogoths are not visigoths
Ravenna was byzantia
@@veronicalogotheti1162 it's not truth, Ostrogoths are related to Visigoths
@@veronicalogotheti1162 Ravenna (and Istria) in that period was part of the Ostrogothic kingdom, you don't know history
So i guess that the Italian region of Lombardia should be actually called "Ostrogotia"!
Maybe of the Ostrogoths had won.
@@BenLlywelynwhat he means is the DNA could be Osyrogoth, most of the time soldiers return home, but farmers are already home.
very nice and informative video. it's sad that romanian schoolchildren don't learn about this part of the nation's history, it's literally 2-3 pages for the whole time between aurelian's withdrawal and the middle ages.
Thank you very much for watching!
and to clarify, middle ages in a romanian sense is late 12th-13th centuries
dang, it's the same for Bharat, it goes from the Indus valley(2600BC) directly to the Mauryan Empire(350BC), then to the Gupta Empire(335 AD) to Turkic Invasions (11th century) till mughals in the 17th to the British (1757) and then Indenpendence (1947)
The age of Basarab.
Good
there is one thing I'm wondering for some time: how much "greek" is italian? we have plenty of words with greek etymology
This is a good question, and the answer is complicated. Ancient Greek was a prestige languages, and Italy and Greece are close geographically. In addition there have been migrations of Greeks more recently.
@BenLlywelyn Sicilian DNA today is 77% Greek, I think. They were less affected by the barbarian invasions of Germanic nations.
A Sicilian like actor Al Pacino would be a typical ancient Greek, purer than today's Greeks who mixed a lot with Slavic immigrants.
Sicilian DNA only changed, maybe more recently, with the Norman invasion adding some blond hair, but before that, they were under Arab Berber Islamic rule, with just 7-8% Berber DNA found.
They migrated there long before Rome existed, and I believe that the Etruscans traded with nearby Greeks from Marseille and Sicily.
I am telling you this from memory, but you or others could correct me with more accurate research..
@@BenLlywelyn thank you :)
Is that castle at 8:14 real? If it is where is that???
It is real. It is in Italy. Sacra di San Michele,
7:30 i see what your saying light the beacons and ride at dawn..😂
19:24 it’s usually the opposite😂
You're bang on about the British Parliament being a joke. Great video, I learnt alot thank you 👌👌👌
Thank you very much.
Love the ostrogoths getting some light jordanis is great but i struggle to find more sources ... I mean at the same time you have lots of turkic and slavs moving into the eastern roman empire as well..
Yes, sources are scant, and the kingdom was cut down quite early.
Thumbs up, Ben and thanks for this video. I am especially amused and intrigued by your parallel with present day British politics.
However, already under Augustus, the first emperor, the Roman Senate functioned as an institution republican only in name... Real imperial power resided with emperors and army generals--at that time the latter were still Romans, not yet Germanic... I think that contemporary British MPs have much more power and consequently more responsibility, than late Roman senators ever did. After all the Parliament in England have been wresled since the Middle Ages with the monarch for freedom, influence and control over their country.
Diolch in fawr o Hwngari!
Üdvözöljük. Glad you liked. Hope I can do videos about Hungary sometime!
@@BenLlywelyn Dydd da i chi. Hoffais eich fideo ar yr Ostrogoths hefyd. Rwy'n caru popeth Celtaidd a Germanaidd. Ffolineb plentyndod i mi.
Hope got the Welsh right here. Please, Ben, keep up good work! Dduw bendithia chi.
@@gergelybakos2159 Nid plentyndod o gwbl on addysgiadol a llenwi enaid gyda gwybodaeth ddyfnach na rhifau. Diolch am wylio!
@@BenLlywelyn Enaid plentyn yn newynu am wirionedd a rhyfeddod.
Never strok me before, but Odoaccer, could it mean rich asir. Ottoasir
very nice welsh name
Thank you.
The first to get in was alarico
That left
To france spain
The last emperor was the boy romulo august
Gave back the crown to the byzantines
Theres a theory that the Lombards were Pagans and Catholics when they entered Italy, but some then converted to the Arian Christianity they encountered from the surviving Ostrogoths in Italy, and the Gepids the Lombards had conquered.
Will have to make on on the Lombards sometime.
That's something I doubt. All Germanic tribes in the area of the middle and lower Danube had their first contact with Christianity through Arianism, simply because there existed only one translation of the New Testament into any Germanic language and this was the Arian Wulfilla Bible. I think it was very appealing to all those tribes, to learn about Christianity in a language they could actually understand ... and theologic technicalities had little importance for those newly converted former Pagans.
The Baiuvarian cousins of the Longobards, with who they were closely related culturally and politically, also were first Arians, before later being forced by the Franks to convert to Catholicism.
All those loosely Gothic (Eastern Germanic) peoples were generally Arians, i.e. they did not agree with the divinity of Jesus. This is because excommunicated Arian followers went on intense and successful missionary work in Panonnia from Egypt (weird but apparently real). Western Germanics on the other hand were generally Pagan instead.
A very based video
Goths are actually Gethes(gea menas land). This is what Saint Jerome tells us. By forgery, transcriptions Germans at the time of the national revival created a fiction about Joradnes' Goths who conquered all of Scythia in three ships (the Greek word for Sarmatians), actually half of them :)). Goths are actually peasants or farmers from the Slavic mass fleeing from the politestic and animistic Huns. About the same as the Vandals (Vendes) who came into contact with the church via the Amber trade roads long before Cyril and Methodius. The Gethes are divided into Visto Gethe or Gethe from the river Vistula and Ister Gethe or Gethe from the river Ister or Danube. Both the Vandals and the Gethes receive help from the local population of Illyricum and Moesia who are constantly raising uprisings against Romea or Constantinople in the rural areas. Why? Because they are not romanized like those in the cities. It is from this mass that Rome takes the most slaves, which is where the first used word Sclaves for Serbs or Sa-brate or Reletives comes from, from which the distorted Roman word Sarmati is formed. Romeo raises also many mobilizing soldiers for his legions. Romans divide the Balkans according to the tribes that are colonize first. These are the Illyrians, the Thracians, the Dacians, the Tribals, the Dardanians, the Japods etc, but in fact they are all one people, with the same archeology, ethnological and cultural characteristics, language, and genetics. They aid the attacks on the Roman Limes on the Danube.
Goths and Geats and Getae are all different. They have common Indo European heritage, but do not let that create distortions.
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Not lost. Anymore than the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia are lost in England. Just merged in.
Diolch Ben, diddorol iawn
Croeso, Tedi. Diolch am wylio.
There were not only germanics
The huns and vikings got in also
The romans constracted venice
Left went there
Odoacer is Odoacru. Acru means sour in romanian. Looks austrian or hungarian.
Totila real name was Baduila wich we can agree thats a dacian and romanian name, but he was born in Italy.
And the gepids are goths so it was goths vs goths fighting a lot. But the gepids had quit the arian religion and switched to the normal christianity ( back then the church wasnt split like it is now with catholics and orthodox).
I like the name Odoacru.
@@BenLlywelyn Like Odobescu just instead of escu( visigoth) he has acru, sour.
Totila is nice just it wasnt his real name.
@@BenLlywelyn and Odo comes from Odor wich means precious( jewelry) and also means perfume, smell, like odorifer, deodorant, etc.
So odoacru means sour smell. 😂
King sour smell.
@@BenLlywelyn It's a good name for a barbarian, and "cru" means raw in Portuguese. Another cool name is Teia, which means web, like the web of a spider!
@mihaillie88
catholics and orthodox have the same religion. The difference is merely political since the greek patriarch of Constantinoupolis refused to be considered less than the bishop of Roma.
The goths unite Europe. Lineages are everywhere. And the Jews lol
Unification and influence are very different, but I get what you mean.
Romans celts germanics got together
That is frank
Against huns and vikings
The franks clovid was with the byzantines
Clovis understood Byzantines were too far away to be a threat to him.
Rome was over
Debatable on both opinions.
Is still going and in Romania, we named our country Romania but not because the dacians destroyed the Roman Empire.
Its because we like the Trojan column. ❤
@@mihaiilie8808 I mean Romans constructed Venice
To be safe from huns and russ
UK has THREE JUDICIAL SYSTEMS...=...'ENGLAND AND WALES......SCOTLAND.....NORTHERN IRELAND'
Wales is slowly budding its own. It will take a long time.
This is not true
Rome was empty
That is why you see venice as a power later
They were romans
Not yet it wasn't.
@@BenLlywelyn the Romans built Venice
Because of the huns invasion
Not easy to get in
The visigoths from the east fought against the huns and vikings
Ostrogoths were vikings
Vikings apear 500-700 years later.
And the visigoths and ostrogoths had been friends at times with the huns.
Huns influenced the visigoths, thats why they got soo good at beating romans.
If you see the elongated heads of the visigoths, those are hunnic influence.
@@mihaiilie8808 the russ went to today ukrania in 400 with the huns of Attila from the east
Ostrogoths are vikings
Visigoths are from the east
And fought against them with the Romans
They were never friends
Didn't speak even the same language
@@mihaiilie8808 read history
@@mihaiilie8808 where did you see the visigoths with alongated heads
Those are the huns
People blonde tall were visigoths
@@veronicalogotheti1162 I am the visigoth from Buzau city, their capital.
Queen visigoth here has elongated skull and she is at the museum.
Elongated skulls are from huns but visigoths got this habbit from the huns too.
Thats why until recently there were people with elongated heads in Toulouse. Its xalled the Toulouse deformity and those are the visigoths.
Visigoths are celts, not blondes and tall like the vikings or the suevi.
Tall and blonde germanics are goths but not all the goths are visigoths.
The visigoths are just like south romanians and people from Toulouse.
They were Aryans, not barbarians.
There are many ways to view it. Yours is one.
I am an excited new subscriber @@BenLlywelyn
no, the aryans were the eastern branch of indo- european speakers that moved into and took over the northern plains of the indian subcontinent from the iranian plateau and central asia. The eastern indo-european might be more precisely referred to as indo-aryans.
Aryans lived in prehistoric times and most Europeans have some ancestry from them even the romans and Greeks because they are just so old and predate all known civilizations in Europe.
Bar-bar = Gernanics speaking. 🤣
They can't even discern the five basic vowels properly...