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In what year did the Western Roman Empire officially fall?

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476 AD

The fall occurred when the Germanic chieftain Odoacer deposed the last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus. The Eastern portion of the empire survived as the Byzantine Empire for another thousand years.

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