The conventional; date for the fall of the western part of theRoman Empire is 476, the year the last emperor in the west, RomulusAugustus, was deposed by Ocoacer a Germanic military commander ofthe Roman army, who styled himself as king of Italy.
Over time, the Eastern part of the Roman empire lost most of itslands to invaders (Arabs, Slavs and Turks) and in the end it wasleft with only its capital, Constantinople, and its surroundingterritories. Constantinople was seized by the Ottoman Turks in1453,

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