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Ovida (? - December 9, 480

480

Events...
) was a general

General

A General officer is an Officer of high military rank. The term or equivalent is used by nearly every country in the world. General can be used as a generic term for all grades of general officer, or it can specifically refer to a single rank that is just called general....
during the late Western Roman Empire

Western Roman Empire

The Western Roman Empire refers to the western half of the Roman Empire, from its division by Diocletian in 285; the other half of the Roman Empire was the Eastern Roman Empire, today widely known as the Byzantine Empire....
and the last Roman ruler of Dalmatia

Dalmatia

Dalmatia is a region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, situated mostly in modern Croatia and spreading between the island of Rab in the northwest and the Bay of Kotor in the southeast....
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Following Flavius Orestes

Flavius Orestes

Flavius Orestes was a Roman politician, who was briefly in control of the Western Roman Empire in 475–6....
's coup against Western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos

Julius Nepos

Flavius Julius Nepos was a Roman Emperor of the West during the Roman Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Some historians consider him to be the last De jure Western Emperor, others consider the western line to have ended with Romulus Augustus in 476....
on August 28, 475

475

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, Ovida remained loyal to the Emperor

Emperor

An emperor is a monarch, usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Empress is the female equivalent. As a title, "empress" may indicate the wife of an emperor or a woman who rules in her own right ....
and accompanied him on his escape

Escape

Escape may refer to:* Escapism, mental diversion by means of entertainment or recreation* Escapology, the study and practice of escaping from physical restraints...
to Dalmatia. The situation in Dalmatia, in contrast to the situation in the rest of the Empire

Decline of the Roman Empire

The English historian Edward Gibbon, author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire made this concept part of the framework of the English language, but he was neither the first nor the last to speculate on why and when the Empire collapsed....
, was fairly stable, to the relief of the civilian population and the legionnaires

Roman legion

The Roman Legion is a term that can apply both as a translation of legio to the entire Roman army and also, more narrowly , to the heavy infantry that was the basic military unit of the Roman army in the period of the late Roman Republic and the Roman Empire....
. For the next three years, Nepos ruled in Dalmatia while in the West

West

West is most commonly a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating Direction or geography.West is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points....
Orestes's son Romulus Augustus was deposed as Emperor by the Scirian

Scirii

File:Odovacar Ravenna 477.jpgThe Scirii were a grouping of East Germanic peoples, attested in historical works between the 2nd century BC and 5th century AD....
general Odoacer

Odoacer

Odoacer , also known as Odovacar , was a Germanic general and the first non-Roman King of Italy after 476. He deposed the last Western Roman Emperor, Romulus Augustus, that year, but continued to rule first as a nominal client of Julius Nepos and, after Nepos' death in AD 480, as a client of the Eastern Roman Emperor....
.

However, in 479 Nepos began planning an operation to reconquer Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
from the barbarian

Barbarian

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Ovida (? - December 9, 480

480

Events...
) was a general

General

Western Roman Empire

Dalmatia

Flavius Orestes

Flavius Orestes was a Roman politician, who was briefly in control of the Western Roman Empire in 475–6....
's coup against Western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos

Julius Nepos

475

Sorry, no overview for this topic
, Ovida remained loyal to the Emperor

Emperor

Escape

Decline of the Roman Empire

Roman legion

West

Scirii

File:Odovacar Ravenna 477.jpgThe Scirii were a grouping of East Germanic peoples, attested in historical works between the 2nd century BC and 5th century AD....
general Odoacer

Odoacer

Italy

Barbarian

"Barbarian" is a pejorative term for an uncivilized person, either in a general reference to a member of a nation or ethnos, typically a tribal society as seen by an urban civilization either viewed as inferior, or admired as a noble savage....
s. These news of military adventures in faraway Italy did not sit well with Nepos's primarily Dalmatian troops; by this point, Dalmatia had been de facto
De facto

De facto is a Latin expression that means "concerning the fact" or in practice but not necessarily ordained by law. It is commonly used in contrast to de jure when referring to matters of law, governance, or technique that are found in the common experience as created or developed without or contrary to a regulation....
independent

Independence

Independence is the self-government of a nation, country, or state by its residents and population, or some portion thereof, generally exercising sovereignty....
for twenty-five years and had no great desire to jeopardize that by provoking Odoacer. In spring 480 Nepos was assassinated. Historian sources has left us with 3 different days of Nepos death and 3 different suspects. He was killed by disgruntled soldiers seeking to forestall his attack, or by agents of Glycerius

Glycerius

Flavius Glycerius was one of the last of the Western Roman Emperors and later served as a bishop in the early Catholicism Church....
, who preceded Nepos as Western Roman Emperor

Western Roman Empire

Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire and Eastern Roman Empire are conventional names used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople....
Zeno

Zeno

Zeno is a Greek name derived from the more ancient variant Zenon . The word may refer to any of the following:...
, to whom Odoacer was technically a vassal

Vassal

A vassal in the terminology that both preceded and accompanied the feudal of medieval Europe, is one who enters into mutual obligations with a monarch, usually of military support and mutual protection, in exchange for certain guarantees, which came to include the terrain held as a fiefdom....
. Acting out of a supposed duty as Zeno's subordinate in Italy, Odoacer used the news of the assassination

Assassination

Assassination is the targeted killing of a public figure. Assassinations may be prompted by ideology, politics, or military reasons. Additionally, assassins may be motivated by contract killing, revenge, or celebrity or may be mental disorder....
as an excuse to invade Dalmatia.

Ovida, as the only authority figure left in Dalmatia, was forced to defend Dalmatia against Odoacer's forces in a short war

War

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that ended with Ovida's death

Death

Death is the permanent termination of the biological functions that define a life organism. It refers to both a particular event and to the condition that results thereby....
on December 9, 480

480

Events...
. Dalmatia was then annexed

Annexation

Annexation is the legal incorporation of some territory into another geo-political entity . Usually, it is implied that the territory and population being annexed is the smaller, more peripheral, and weaker of the two merging entities....
to become part of Odoacer's Kingdom of Italy.