🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

A Gothic prince, raised in Constantinople as a diplomatic hostage, educated in the ways of the Eastern Roman Empire. A king who ruled Italy from Ravenna after the fall of the West. This is a thread on Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths. 🧵

Eastern Roman history is so incredible because it had so many stages of winning, losing, defending, dramatic falls, & epic comebacks. A stubborn entity that began as a superpower but died more like a city-state…it’s also such a long history with over a millennium to read about!

Long before the Visigoths ruled Spain, another Germanic kingdom carved out its power in Roman Hispania. Their king marched south, seized Roman cities, and built a realm from imperial ruins. This is a thread on Rechila, king of the Suebi 🧵