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[Francisco Santos]

The fall of the Roman Empire in the west dates from the end of the year 406,
when barbarian armies, after intense fighting, forced their way across the
Rhine. They overran the Gauls, and in September - October 409 crossed the
pyrenees into the Iberian Peninsula, where they were soon afterwards
assigned land. The Sueves received the Conventus Braccarensis, which
included the cities of Oporto and Braga, and were the only ones of these
first invaders to remain permanently where they settled. Unlike the nomadic
Alans and the destructive Vandals, they were Germanic peasants who had been
established near the borders of the Empire. Like other barbarian peoples,
they were illiterate and pagan. Their kingdom lasted a little more than 170
years, until 586, when it was suppressed by Leovigild, that is to say, not
much less than half as long as the four centuries of the Roman Empire
itself.

http://www.fringosa.com/numismatica.htm


Francisco


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