Event Ostrogothic cession of Raethia and Noricum to the Franks

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During the Gothic War against the Byzantine Empire, the Ostrogoths ceded Raetia and Noricum to the Frankish Kingdom.

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  • January 537: In 536, during their defensive struggle against Byzantium, the Goths of Italy ceded all the areas they controlled north of the Alps to the Frankish kings, in order to at least gain neutrality from them. So Rätien and Norikum also became Franconian.