Rome has been sacked by the Visigoths, Vandals, Ostrogoths, and many more.
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The Vandals were an eastern Germanic tribe that invaded and sacked Rome in 455 AD. This "senseless destruction" provided the English terms for those who damage property.
If by Rome you mean the city of Rome, it was sacked by the Gallic tribe of the Senones in 390 BC. The Alemanni reached the outskirts between 258 and 260. Alaric I of the Visigoths besieged it twice and sacked it in his third attack (407-410). The vandals sacked it in 455. in 866 the arabs looted St Peter's, which was outside the walls. The Ostrogoths sacked it in 546 during the Gothic wars. In 1084 it was the Normans and in 1527 it was mutinous troops of emperor Charles V
In the 5th century C.E., Rome was sacked twice by "barbarian" forces. In 410, Alaric led a force of Goths (or, Visigoths) into Italy, sacking Rome and other cities. Later, in the 480s and 490s, a force of Germanic peoples known as Ostrogoth's invaded Italy, captured Rome, and set themselves up as the rulers of the conquered territory, thus bringing the Western Roman Empire to its formal end.
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