Where Did Rome Go, or Cum Eramus Romani
Journal: Oriental Courier
Year: 2025

The paper provides a critical analysis of some theories (out of more than two hundred available) of the fall of the Roman Empire. The author takes a particularly close look at the ambiguous situation with the barbarian tribes and their leaders, who acted both on the side of the weakening Rome and on the side of the “nomadic periphery,” arguing that the Dark Ages — an outdated term for the early Middle Ages — came to the lands of the Roman Empire not along with the Huns and Vandals, but logically