BARBARI The Ostrogoths led by their king Theodoric crossing the Alps in 489. Theodoric the Great (454-526); ​​king of the Ostrogoths from 474; came into Italy with an army of about 100;000 Ostrogoths and its people; engaging them in a series of bloody fighting against the Heruli Odoacer. The latter's death in 493; with the settlement of Theodoric as the second of the barbarian kings of Rome began the domination of the Ostrogoths in Italy; which represented a long period of peace and stability. In the left pane a schematic map of the kingdom of the Ostrogoths. Chromos; Liebig figurine series "The migration of peoples"; Italy 1905