Gento was a 5th-century
Gothic warrior in
Eastern Roman service. He was married to a Roman woman from
Epirus
Epirus () is a Region#Geographical regions, geographical and historical region, historical region in southeastern Europe, now shared between Greece and Albania. It lies between the Pindus Mountains and the Ionian Sea, stretching from the Bay ...
, and the commander of a unit of Roman troops. In 479, when
Theodoric the Great
Theodoric (or Theoderic) the Great (454 – 30 August 526), also called Theodoric the Amal, was king of the Ostrogoths (475–526), and ruler of the independent Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy between 493 and 526, regent of the Visigoths (511–526 ...
attempted to settle the
Ostrogoths
The Ostrogoths () were a Roman-era Germanic peoples, Germanic people. In the 5th century, they followed the Visigoths in creating one of the two great Goths, Gothic kingdoms within the Western Roman Empire, drawing upon the large Gothic populatio ...
in Epirus with the help of his relative
Sidimund, Gento and the Eastern Roman general
Sabinianus were tasked with preventing it.
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Fravitta
Flavius Fravitta ( Greek: ; died 404/405) was a leader of the Goths and a top-ranking officer in the army of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Fravitta was a member of the Thervingi aristocracy. He was also a pagan, and for this reason he was praised by ...
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Byzantine people of Gothic descent
5th-century Byzantine military personnel
Gothic warriors
Generals of Zeno
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