Lombards
Language: Lombardic (Germanic)
Location: Veneto and broader Dolomite region
Religion: Chalcedonian Christianity
Size: 3 million
History: Following the brief, decisive Gothic War in which the Rhoman Empire reasserted control over Italy, the remnants of the Ostrogothic Kingdom retreated to the Dolomite Alps. Fearing eventual reinvasion, the Empire tacitly urged a confederation of Germanic tribes to the east, headed by the Lombards, to invade and take the region for themselves. They succeeded and in turn became their own thorn in the Empire’s side, founding a stout mountainous kingdom that persisted for almost four centuries before being conquered by the expanding Empire of the Germans.
Language: Lombardic (Germanic)
Location: Veneto and broader Dolomite region
Religion: Chalcedonian Christianity
Size: 3 million
History: Following the brief, decisive Gothic War in which the Rhoman Empire reasserted control over Italy, the remnants of the Ostrogothic Kingdom retreated to the Dolomite Alps. Fearing eventual reinvasion, the Empire tacitly urged a confederation of Germanic tribes to the east, headed by the Lombards, to invade and take the region for themselves. They succeeded and in turn became their own thorn in the Empire’s side, founding a stout mountainous kingdom that persisted for almost four centuries before being conquered by the expanding Empire of the Germans.