Rugiland

Rugiland, or the Kingdom of the Rugii, was a short-lived Germanic kingdom established in the fifth century in what is now Lower Austria. The Rugii, an East Germanic people who had migrated from Pomerania to the upper Tisza, fought under Attila at the Catalaunian Plains in 451 and then rebelled against the Huns at the Battle of Nedao in 453. They settled north of the Danube in the Waldviertel and Weinviertel, outside the old Roman province of Noricum. By 467 they had a kingdom under King Flaccitheus, who was succeeded in 475 by his son Feletheus, married to the Goth Gisa. Feletheus backed the Herulian and Scirian mercenaries who made Odoacer king of Italy in 476, but later came into conflict with him; after Feletheus killed his own brother Ferderuchus, Odoacer invaded Rugiland, captured the king and his wife and had them executed at Ravenna in 487. The Rugian territory was then settled by the Lombards, while surviving Rugii joined Theodoric the Great's Ostrogoths and marched on Italy in 489.