[The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire CHAPTER XXXIX: Gothic Kingdom Of Italy 27/40
431--443.) But of these Sardinia and Corsica were possessed by the Vandals, and the two Rhaetias, as well as the Cottian Alps, seem to have been abandoned to a military government.
The state of the four provinces that now form the kingdom of Naples is labored by Giannone (tom.i.p.172, 178) with patriotic diligence.] [Footnote 5511: Manso enumerates and develops at some length the following sources of the royal revenue of Theodoric: 1.
A domain, either by succession to that of Odoacer, or a part of the third of the lands was reserved for the royal patrimony.1.Regalia, including mines, unclaimed estates, treasure-trove, and confiscations.3.Land tax.
4. Aurarium, like the Chrysargyrum, a tax on certain branches of trade. 5.
Grant of Monopolies.6.Siliquaticum, a small tax on the sale of all kinds of commodities.7.Portoria, customs Manso, 96, 111.
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