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Mosaicos del Baptisterio arriano (s. V d.C.)

En el año 493 d.C los ostrogodos al mando de Teodorico conquistan Italia y establecen la capital de su reino en Rávena. Como muchos pueblos germanos, los ostrogodos eran arrianos. Los mosaicos de la cúpula del Baptisterio arriano están declarados Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la UNESCO.

Rávena fue la última capital del Imperio Romano de Occidente desde el año 402 d.C. hasta la caida del mismo en el año 476 d.C. Su importancia se mantuvo como, primero, capital del Reino Ostrogodo de Italia y, después, como la posesión más importante del Imperio Bizantino en Occidente.

 

The Ostrogoth Theoderic took Italian peninsula in 493 a.d. and Ravenna became the capital of the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy. Theoderic and his followers were Arian Christians, but co-existed peacefully with the Latins, The mosaics of the arian Baptistry are inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List

Ravenna was the capital city of the Western Roman Empire from 402 until that empire collapsed in 476. It then served as the capital of the Kingdom of the Ostrogoths until it was re-conquered in 540 by the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire. Afterwards, the city formed the centre of the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna until the invasion of the Franks in 751, after which it became the seat of the Kingdom of the Lombards.

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