Italy's Lost Germanic Kingdom, the Ostrogoths

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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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@kpace8605 Месяц назад

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.

@mariadespina80 Месяц назад

Congratulations for the clips about the history of Europe.

@synaestesia-bg3ew Месяц назад

Subscribed, i really love this man style of telling history.🎉

@BenLlywelyn Месяц назад

Thank you very much.

@matf5593 Месяц назад

Une autre bonne capsule intéressante 😮 Merci!

@BenLlywelyn Месяц назад

Merci pour le regarde. Peut-être un sur les burgondes, aussi.

@s.thomas3289 Месяц назад

Interesting take and comparison with our modern time. I like this !

@stevedrane2364 Месяц назад

Thank you for a truly fascinating video. 👍

@BenLlywelyn Месяц назад

You are welcome.

@BenLlywelyn Месяц назад

Support the channel with Patreon: www.patreon.com/BenLlywelyn

@SiqueScarface Месяц назад

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).

@BenLlywelyn Месяц назад

Glad people have written stories set in the place and time. Fascinating.

@LuisAldamiz Месяц назад

I like how you described Westminister, Welsh guy. Subscribed!

@BenLlywelyn Месяц назад

Thank you for joining the journey.

@bretrohde7300 Месяц назад

Excellent job! Thanks. If you could create a similarly detailed video on the Lombards, well, that would be sweet!

@BenLlywelyn Месяц назад

I will be doing so, at some point. And thank you.

@booneclaudi753 Месяц назад

It was marvellous. A beautiful story ❤️

@BenLlywelyn Месяц назад

Wonderful that you watched and enjoyed. Thank you.

@jackportugge5647 Месяц назад

So i guess that the Italian region of Lombardia should be actually called "Ostrogotia"!

@BenLlywelyn Месяц назад

Maybe of the Ostrogoths had won.

@kogaryu5558 Месяц назад

@@BenLlywelynwhat he means is the DNA could be Osyrogoth, most of the time soldiers return home, but farmers are already home.

@mea.histria Месяц назад

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)

@karst1559 Месяц назад

Ostro-Goats

@veronicalogotheti1162 Месяц назад

Ostrogoths are not visigoths

@veronicalogotheti1162 Месяц назад

Ravenna was byzantia

@mea.histria Месяц назад

@@veronicalogotheti1162 it's not truth, Ostrogoths are related to Visigoths

@mea.histria Месяц назад

@@veronicalogotheti1162 Ravenna (and Istria) in that period was part of the Ostrogothic kingdom, you don't know history

@spirosvelliniatis2165 Месяц назад

I am surprised that you don't mention Dietrich von Bern saga!!!😊

@waszlawbrno8355 Месяц назад

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.

@BenLlywelyn Месяц назад

Thank you very much for watching!

@waszlawbrno8355 Месяц назад

and to clarify, middle ages in a romanian sense is late 12th-13th centuries

@laabh9949 Месяц назад

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)

@BenLlywelyn Месяц назад

The age of Basarab.

@WarDogMadness 25 дней назад

7:30 i see what your saying light the beacons and ride at dawn..😂

@mmadaus Месяц назад

there is one thing I'm wondering for some time: how much "greek" is italian? we have plenty of words with greek etymology

@BenLlywelyn Месяц назад

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.

@synaestesia-bg3ew Месяц назад

@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..

@mmadaus Месяц назад

@@BenLlywelyn thank you :)

@jamesgpevans9421 Месяц назад

You're bang on about the British Parliament being a joke. Great video, I learnt alot thank you 👌👌👌

@BenLlywelyn Месяц назад

Thank you very much.

@gergelybakos2159 Месяц назад

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!

@BenLlywelyn Месяц назад

Üdvözöljük. Glad you liked. Hope I can do videos about Hungary sometime!

@gergelybakos2159 Месяц назад

@@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.

@BenLlywelyn Месяц назад

@@gergelybakos2159 Nid plentyndod o gwbl on addysgiadol a llenwi enaid gyda gwybodaeth ddyfnach na rhifau. Diolch am wylio!

@gergelybakos2159 Месяц назад

@@BenLlywelyn Enaid plentyn yn newynu am wirionedd a rhyfeddod.

@mihaiilie8808 Месяц назад

Good

@WarDogMadness 25 дней назад

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..

@BenLlywelyn 25 дней назад

Yes, sources are scant, and the kingdom was cut down quite early.

@FiaCat7 Месяц назад

Is that castle at 8:14 real? If it is where is that???

@BenLlywelyn Месяц назад

It is real. It is in Italy. Sacra di San Michele,

@jbstarkiller4626 7 дней назад

19:24 it’s usually the opposite😂

@mango2005 Месяц назад

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.

@BenLlywelyn Месяц назад

Will have to make on on the Lombards sometime.

@ekesandras1481 Месяц назад

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.

@LuisAldamiz Месяц назад

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.

@djoledjole5007 Месяц назад

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.

@BenLlywelyn Месяц назад

Goths and Geats and Getae are all different. They have common Indo European heritage, but do not let that create distortions.

@user-nq7vb4qv3b Месяц назад

🎉скития не е гръцка дума

@veronicalogotheti1162 Месяц назад

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

@fredyyfredfreddy Месяц назад

Never strok me before, but Odoaccer, could it mean rich asir. Ottoasir

@weyjosh5213 Месяц назад

very nice welsh name

@BenLlywelyn Месяц назад

Thank you.

@mikenow3050 Месяц назад

A very based video

@stephfoxwell4620 Месяц назад

Not lost. Anymore than the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia are lost in England. Just merged in.

@tedi1932 Месяц назад

Diolch Ben, diddorol iawn

@BenLlywelyn Месяц назад

Croeso, Tedi. Diolch am wylio.

@veronicalogotheti1162 Месяц назад

There were not only germanics The huns and vikings got in also

@mihaiilie8808 Месяц назад

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).

@BenLlywelyn Месяц назад

I like the name Odoacru.

@mihaiilie8808 Месяц назад

@@BenLlywelyn Like Odobescu just instead of escu( visigoth) he has acru, sour. Totila is nice just it wasnt his real name.

@mihaiilie8808 Месяц назад

@@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.

@jackportugge5647 Месяц назад

@@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!

@ezzovonachalm9815 Месяц назад

@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.

@sositehui6483 Месяц назад

The goths unite Europe. Lineages are everywhere. And the Jews lol

@BenLlywelyn Месяц назад

Unification and influence are very different, but I get what you mean.

@veronicalogotheti1162 Месяц назад

The romans constracted venice Left went there

@veronicalogotheti1162 Месяц назад

Romans celts germanics got together That is frank Against huns and vikings The franks clovid was with the byzantines

@BenLlywelyn Месяц назад

Clovis understood Byzantines were too far away to be a threat to him.

@judithparker4608 Месяц назад

UK has THREE JUDICIAL SYSTEMS...=...'ENGLAND AND WALES......SCOTLAND.....NORTHERN IRELAND'

@BenLlywelyn Месяц назад

Wales is slowly budding its own. It will take a long time.

@veronicalogotheti1162 Месяц назад

Rome was over

@BenLlywelyn Месяц назад

Debatable on both opinions.

@mihaiilie8808 Месяц назад

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. ❤

@veronicalogotheti1162 Месяц назад

@@mihaiilie8808 I mean Romans constructed Venice To be safe from huns and russ

@veronicalogotheti1162 Месяц назад

The visigoths from the east fought against the huns and vikings Ostrogoths were vikings

@mihaiilie8808 Месяц назад

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.

@veronicalogotheti1162 Месяц назад

@@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

@veronicalogotheti1162 Месяц назад

@@mihaiilie8808 read history

@veronicalogotheti1162 Месяц назад

@@mihaiilie8808 where did you see the visigoths with alongated heads Those are the huns People blonde tall were visigoths

@mihaiilie8808 Месяц назад

@@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.

@veronicalogotheti1162 Месяц назад

This is not true Rome was empty That is why you see venice as a power later They were romans

@BenLlywelyn Месяц назад

Not yet it wasn't.

@veronicalogotheti1162 Месяц назад

@@BenLlywelyn the Romans built Venice Because of the huns invasion Not easy to get in

@hrangkhol9057 Месяц назад

They were Aryans, not barbarians.

@BenLlywelyn Месяц назад

There are many ways to view it. Yours is one.

@synaestesia-bg3ew Месяц назад

I am an excited new subscriber @@BenLlywelyn

@antoniodesousa9723 Месяц назад

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.

@belstar1128 Месяц назад

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.

@LuisAldamiz Месяц назад

Bar-bar = Gernanics speaking. 🤣 They can't even discern the five basic vowels properly...