What happened to the last emperor of Rome?
<p>Somehow, the penultimate emperor, Julius Nepos, appointed Orestes Flavius as “magister militum,” effectively the commander-in-chief. Orestes consulted with the soldiers and decided that the emperor was unsuitable for the people, so he needed to be overthrown and replaced with a more authoritative figure. He did this in 475 by capturing the city of Ravenna, which was the capital of the Western Roman Empire at the time. True, the emperor was not in the capital then; he had managed to escape to Dalmatia. Waiting for decency (and actually, awaiting Constantinople’s reaction) for a couple of months, Orestes made his own son Romulus the new emperor, who was either 14 or 15 years old. Naturally, all decisions for Romulus were made by his father, who remained the head of the armed forces.</p>
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