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By A.D. 400, the West Roman Empire was disintegrating and would not last the century. Various German tribes had occupied the Rhine–Danube border for 400 years and small groups had been slowly and peacefully immigrating into the empire. However, in 375, vast hordes of Asiatic nomads entered the German lands from the east. These forced whole German tribes, led by their kings, into a mass migration westward, looking for refuge within the Roman Empire. Within 100 years, 375–476, the Germans occupied essentially the entire West Roman Empire. After two sacks of Rome, in 410 and 455, the takeover of the residual empire by German mercenaries during 456–472 and the death of the last ersatz emperor in 476, the West Roman Empire was issued a death notice by the East Roman emperor, Zeno, in 480.
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Robison, R. (2015). Reich Thalers and Pechblende. In: Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11830-7_1
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