FIRST MIDDLE AGES

When Rome approached an unstoppable forfeiture, Agerola recorded a transformation of remarkable importance, because the barbaric invasions influenced positively on its demographic development. From more parts people riversò on hills of the Lattari Mounts in are attempted of emergency. And progressed new culture reached one up here and more. Reached you also the Galliums? It must verify it, but we think not. When Costantino emperor placed the second one understood them of the Empire to Bisanzio in the 326 d. C. and uniforms its territories in province, assigned that one of the Campania to a its consul with civil and military powers. It hoped in such a way to check the forfeiture and the sfacelo of the Empire, but the soprusi of those who resisted the fates of the province bell ended for immiserire the entire region. The things changed with the emperor Teodosio 1 (347 - 395 d. C.), that it tried to run to the shelters. Its son tried us still Onorio (384-423 d. C.), anch'egli without turns out to you positi to you, because it was defeated from the Visigoti di Alarico. In year 476 d. C. was Odoacre, king of the Eruli, to invade the Campania. But it governed dispoticamente and rovinosamente.

To place aim to the Barbarian tyranny erula the Teodorico thought to us ostrogoto (454-526 d. C.) which exempted the populations of the zone from some contribuzioni as a result of the 512 the vesuviane eruptions of C.0). Under its government the Coastal Amalfitana, comprising earth of Agerola, came entrusted to a Preside and some Comiti. To the dead women of Teodorico, happened in year 526 d. C., the Ostrogoto Reign passed to the young Atalarico grandson, that it reigned per year under the protection of the mother fine Amalasunta 534. Of those times we do not have, unfortunately, than insufficient news Agerola.