ostrogothic kingdom
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.29 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A kingdom (493—553 CE), founded by Theodoric the Great, corresponding to present-day Italy (including Sicily but not Sardinia) and neighbouring areas.
Example Sentences
- "Theodoric died in 526, and within ten years from his death the struggle began which ended in the destruction of his work, the overthrow of the Ostrogothic kingdom."
- "1984, Thomas S. Burns, A History of the Ostrogoths, Indiana University Press, 1991, Midland Books, page 202, Indeed, the success of his government, and that of the Ostrogothic Kingdom as a whole depended upon the fair-minded juxtaposition of personnel and functions into an overlapping system."
- "The Ostrogothic kingdom under Theodoric is unique for its creation and deployment of royal imagines in ways closely comparable with the practice and purpose of the contemporary Empire; but culturally Ostrogothic Italy was still an Imperial province."
Synonyms
Kingdom of Italy
Kingdom of the Ostrogoths