King Alboin, having absorbed the surviving Gepidae…

568 CE

King Alboin, having absorbed the surviving Gepidae into his Lombard nation, assembles adventurers from other Germanic tribes, including several thousand Saxons, and prepares his combined forces, together with their women and children, for a migration across the Alps into Italy, loosely held by Constantinople.

The severely disorganized and generally unprepared provinces in northern Italy offer little resistance to the invading Lombards.

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Verona Veneto Italy View →

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Lombards (West Germanic tribe) View → Saxons View → Gepids (East Germanic tribe) View → Heruli (East Germanic tribe) View → East, or Oriens, Praetorian prefecture of View → Italy, Praetorian prefecture of View → Roman Empire, Eastern: Justinian dynasty View → Lombards (Italy), Kingdom of the View →

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