Cosenza
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Cosenza is a city and comune located in the region of Calabria in southern Italy. The city has a population of 63,240, making it the 5th-largest city in Calabria, while the urban area counts more than
View of the modern city
Monument to Alaric I
The Monument to the Independence and Unity of Italy, celebrating the uprising of 15 March 1844.
Rose window of the church of San Domenico
Alaric I
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Alaric I was the first king of the Visigoths, from 395 to 410. He rose to leadership of the Goths who came to occupy Moesia—territory acquired a couple of decades earlier by a combined force of Goths
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…on the Roman route via Popilia, which connected Calabria to Sicily. During the Roman Empire, the town benefited from municipal privileges. In 410 AD, Alaric I, king of the Visigoths, sacked the city of Rome, becoming the first foreign enemy to capture the city in more than 800 years. Alaric amassed a great…
A 20th-century depiction of Alaric parading through Athens after conquering the city in 395
Imaginative portrait of Alaric in C. Strahlheim, Das Welttheater, 4. Band, Frankfurt a.M., 1836
Alaric (central figure, bearded) rests after capturing Athens, as imagined by Ludwig Thiersch in 1879
The Sack of Rome by the Visigoths on 24 August 410 by J.-N. Sylvestre (1890)