General Notes

Heruli, a Germanic people originally from Scandinavia. They raided townsin the Roman Empire , scoring their greatest success in AD 267, when theycaptured Byzantium and sacked Greek cit ies [including Athens]. Two yearslater, the eastern Heruli were crushingly defeated by the R oman emperorClaudius II Gothicus in a battle near Naissus (modern Nis, Yugos). Fromthen unt il the mid-6th century, when they vanished from history, theirfortunes varied. They were sub jugated first by Ermanaric the Goth, thenby Huns. Their kingdom on the middle Danube, founde d in the late 5thcentury, fell to the Lombards early in the 6th century.


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