Ravenna

Imperial capital

city in northern Italy

Location: 44.4161, 12.2017 · Pleiades 393480

What this place is

Imperial capital — the western imperial court from 402, then Theodoric's royal seat, then the Byzantine exarch's, until the Lombards took the city in 751

Who is recorded here

Honorius death · AD 423
Germanus of Auxerre death · AD 448
Odoacer death · AD 493
Amalasuntha birth · AD 498
Audofleda death · AD 510
John I death · AD 526
Theodoric the Great death · AD 526
Maximianus of Ravenna death · AD 556
Sylvester II ministry

What happened here

Peter Chrysologus answers Eutyches AD 449
Deposition of Romulus Augustulus AD 476

In art

File:Basilica of San Vitale.jpg — Commonists

About the place

Ravenna is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy.

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