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GonzoCreed t1_it50mb6 wrote

Reply to comment by AJ_Lounes in Was there mass migration of Roman citizens from Western Empire to Eastern Empire during degredation and after fall of Western part of empire. by [deleted]

Out of curiosity, are there any known holdouts of Roman cities continuing to operate after the fall of the western Roman empire?

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peach_antique t1_it54ccf wrote

It depends on what these key words mean - "operate" on what level? and "fall" as in 476? A number of cities continued to provide public services, pay to keep up their existing infrastructure and construct new buildings. It depends on how you define the specific romanitas of a city! In Ostrogothic Italy, some aqueducts were repaired or built anew in Ravenna, Rome, Naples, for instance. Vandal North Africa also remained pretty urban. Overall, cities definitely get less important for a few hundred years, for sure.

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AJ_Lounes t1_it51iar wrote

Very interesting question. I honestly don't know.

If any kind of resistance was there, I think it was more of a cultural one rather than an organised armed one.

But it is definitely something that needs to be studied ! We never know and might be surprised

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