![]() By late 569, they had conquered all of northern Italy and the principal cities north of the Po River, except Pavia, which fell in 572. The Lombards were joined by numerous Saxons, Heruls, Gepids, Bulgars, Thuringians and Ostrogoths, and their invasion of Italy was almost unopposed. Traces have also been discovered of Mediterranean Greeks and of a woman whose skull suggests French ancestry, possibly indicating that migrations into the Lombard territory occurred from Greece and France.įollowing Alboin's victory over the Gepids, he led his people into North Eastern Italy, which had become severely depopulated and devastated after the long Gothic War (535–554) between the Byzantine Empire and the Ostrogothic Kingdom. Archaeologists have unearthed burial sites in the area of Szólád of Lombard men and women buried together as families, a practice that was uncommon for Germanic peoples at the time. The Lombards settled in modern-day Hungary in Pannonia. ![]() The Lombard king Audoin defeated the Gepid leader Thurisind in 551 or 552, and his successor Alboin eventually destroyed the Gepids in 567. By the end of the fifth century, the Lombards had moved into the area roughly coinciding with modern Austria and Slovakia north of the Danube, where they subdued the Heruls and later fought frequent wars with the Gepids. By the time of the Roman-era - historians wrote of the Lombards in the 1st century AD, as being one of the Suebian peoples, in what is now northern Germany, near the Elbe river. The medieval Lombard historian Paul the Deacon wrote in the History of the Lombards (written between 787 and 796) that the Lombards descended from a small tribe called the Winnili, who dwelt in southern Scandinavia ( Scadanan) before migrating to seek new lands. The Lombards ( / ˈ l ɒ m b ər d z, - b ɑːr d z, ˈ l ʌ m-/) or Langobards ( Latin: Langobardi) were a Germanic people who ruled most of the Italian Peninsula from 568 to 774. Lombard possessions in Italy: the Lombard Kingdom ( Neustria, Austria and Tuscia) and the Lombard Duchies of Spoleto and Benevento
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